20141027 bouchout declaration
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Bouchout Declaration for Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management. Lecture presented at the TDWG 2014TRANSCRIPT
Bouchout Declarationfor Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management
Donat AgostiPlazi
TDWG 2014, Jönköping, SwedenOctober 27, 2014
Why another declaration?
“free of charge online access to EU-funded research…
essential for Europe's ability to enhance its economic performance and improve the capacity to compete through knowledge”
Why another declaration?
“Access to digital data sets resulting from federally funded research
….
will accelerate scientific breakthroughs and innovation, promote entrepreneurship, and enhance economic growth and job creation.”
Why another declaration?
Why another declaration?
EU BON - Building the European Biodiversity Observation Network, as the European contribtion to the Global Earth Observation Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON)
Why another declaration?
What is the future of the biological world?
Imagine if we could:
…Predict community level dynamics of ecosystems atscales from local to global, based on the ecology andbiology of all individual organisms
Harfoot, BIH2013, Rome, 2013Hardisty, Nature 502, 171 2013
Origin
Coordination and Policy Development in Preparation for a European Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management System
2012-2014
Supported by the European Commission through its FP7 research funding programme
(pro-)iBiosphere
Why another declaration?
Why another declaration?
The Bouchout Declaration is a response of our community to new opportunities and challenges to shape the future of our research and its discoveries in a rapidly changing environment.
Why another declaration?
The Bouchout Declaration provides additional messages to existing declarations:• Direct access to digital content• Inclusion of processes to implement access• Catalyst for discussions
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http://bouchoutdeclaration.org
Bouchout Declaration Website
Bouchout Declaration Launch
June 12, 2014Bouchout Castle, Botanic Garden Meise, Belgium
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GOAL: Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management
As signatories, we encourage an overarching approach to Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management which is based on the following fundamental principles:
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Open Access
The free and open use of digital resources about biodiversity and associated access services
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Licenses
Licenses or waivers that grant or allow all users a free, irrevocable, world-wide, right to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly as well as to build on the work and to make derivative works, subject to proper attribution consistent with community practices, while recognizing that providers may develop commercial products with more restrictive licensing.
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Licenses ctd.
Data and research results are not copyrighted. Therefore no license should be added (see Blue List: http://plazi.org/?q=blue_list)
If possible, publications should be created as Open Access works
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Policy
Policy developments that will foster free and open access to biodiversity data
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Attribution
Tracking the use of identifiers in links and citations to ensure that sources and suppliers of data are assigned credit for their contributions
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Infrastructure
An agreed infrastructure, standards and protocols to improve access to and use of open data
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Registers
Registers for content and services to allow discovery, access and use of open data
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Persistent Identifiers
Persistent identifiers for data objects and physical objects such as specimens, images and taxonomic treatments with standard mechanisms to take users directly to content and data
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TDWG GUID meeting Stockholm, 25-26 Oct, 2014
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Linked Open Data
Linking data using agreed vocabularies, both within and beyond biodiversity, that enable participation in the Linked Open Data Cloud
http://lod-cloud.net/
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Development
Dialogue to refine the concept, priorities and technical requirements of Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management
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Business
A sustainable Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management that is attentive to scientific, sociological, legal, and financial aspects
