Presentation in the framework of sustainability of OpenPHACTS (openphacts.org)

1. No Free Lunch
OpenPHACTS/Gen2Phen workshop
Jan Velterop – 19 September 2011

2. « And they say
unto him, we
have here but
five loaves,
and two
fishes »

3. « And they say
h t
unto him, we
have here but u g
five loaves, h o
and two r T
fishes » f o
o d
F o

4. No miracle;
just a fundamental
difference between
« And they say
unto him, we information
goods and
have here but
five loaves,
and two
fishes »

5. No miracle;
just a fundamental
difference between
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goods and
have here but
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five loaves,
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whe
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and two
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6. No miracle;
just a fundamental
difference between
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have here but
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8. ©
©
©
©
© © ©©
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© ©
© © ©©
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Copyright is an attempt to
©
eliminate this difference
©
©©
©
© © ©©
© ©© ©

9. But information flows –
like water –
it just finds its way

10. ©
©
©
©
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11. ©
©
©
©
In science, © © is
©
© copyright © the
© ©
© © ©©
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wrong solution for the wrong
©
© problem
©©
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© © ©©
© ©© ©

13. Noösphere
✮ ✮
✮ ✮
✮
✮
✮

14. ( )
As opposed to the
‘access-licence-sphere’
or L-sphere

15. Science is a bit like a parachute

16. Science is a bit like a parachute
It works better
if it’s open

17. Science is a bit like a parachute
Does open mean free, gratis?

18. But what about Costs?

19. But what about Costs?

21. Clearly, there is tension
in the system

23. Perhaps more than you might
think

24. Hype

25. Hypothesis

26. Hypocrisy

27. t e m
S y s
g o
E

28. Men pay most attention to
what is their own – less to
what is common
Ἀριστοτέλης

29. The four pillars
of sustainability

30. ©

31. ©
Sell

32. ©

34. Open Access
is a means to an end;
not an end in itself

35. What content in OPS?

36. What content in OPS?
Should it be literature converted to
‘nanopublications’

37. What content in OPS?
Should it be literature converted to
‘nanopublications’
on-the-fly?

38. What content in OPS?
Should it be literature converted to
‘nanopublications’
on-the-fly?
Is that even possible?

40. And what does that make
nanopublications?

41. And what does that make
nanopublications?
What are they?

42. And what does that make
nanopublications?
What are they?
Data or publications?

43. And what does that make
nanopublications?
What are they?
Data or publications?
Copyrightable or not?

44. Content is King

45. Content
X
is King

46. “Used to be”

47. ©

48. What can be copyrighted?

49. What can be copyrighted?
✓ Literature

50. What can be copyrighted?
✓ Literature
(including articles, novels, song lyrics and instruction manuals)
✓ Art

51. What can be copyrighted?
✓ Literature
(including articles, novels, song lyrics and instruction manuals)
✓ Art
(including photographs, logos, paintings, maps and architecture)
✓ Music
✓ Sound recordings
✓ Films
✓ Broadcasts
✓ Drama

52. What can be copyrighted?
✓ Literature
(including articles, novels, song lyrics and instruction manuals)
✓ Art
(including photographs, logos, paintings, maps and architecture)
✓ Music
✓ Sound recordings
✓ Films
✓ Broadcasts
✓ Drama
(including dance and mime)
✓ Computer software

53. What can be copyrighted?
✓ Literature
(including articles, novels, song lyrics and instruction manuals)
✓ Art
(including photographs, logos, paintings, maps and architecture)
✓ Music
✓ Sound recordings
✓ Films
✓ Broadcasts
✓ Drama
(including dance and mime)
✓ Computer software

54. What can be copyrighted?
✓ Literature
(including articles, novels, song lyrics and instruction manuals)
✓ Art
(including photographs, logos, paintings, maps and architecture)
✓ Music
✓ Sound recordings
✓ Films
✓ Broadcasts
✓ Drama
(including dance and mime)
✓ Computer software

55. What can be copyrighted?
✓ Literature
(including articles, novels, song lyrics and instruction manuals)
✓ Art
(including photographs, logos, paintings, maps and architecture)
✓ Music
✓ Sound recordings
✓ Films
✓ Broadcasts
✓ Drama
(including dance and mime)
✓ Computer software

56. What can be copyrighted?
✓ Literature
(including articles, novels, song lyrics and instruction manuals)
✓ Art
(including photographs, logos, paintings, maps and architecture)
✓ Music
✓ Sound recordings
✓ Films
✓ Broadcasts
✓ Drama
(including dance and mime)
✓ Computer software

57. What can be copyrighted?
✓ Literature
(including articles, novels, song lyrics and instruction manuals)
✓ Art
(including photographs, logos, paintings, maps and architecture)
✓ Music
✓ Sound recordings
✓ Films
✓ Broadcasts
✓ Drama
(including dance and mime)
✓ Computer software

58. What can be copyrighted?
✓ Literature
(including articles, novels, song lyrics and instruction manuals)
✓ Art
(including photographs, logos, paintings, maps and architecture)
✓ Music
✓ Sound recordings
✓ Films
✓ Broadcasts
✓ Drama
(including dance and mime)
✓ Computer software

59. What can be copyrighted?
✓ Literature
(including articles, novels, song lyrics and instruction manuals)
✓ Art
(including photographs, logos, paintings, maps and architecture)
✓ Music
✓ Sound recordings
✓ Films
✓ Broadcasts
✓ Drama
(including dance and mime)
✓ Computer software

61. What about data?

62. What cannot be copyrighted?

63. What cannot be copyrighted?
✓ Data

64. What cannot be copyrighted?
✓ Data
(Well, depending on what the data are. Factual data are not copyrightable. Creative or
expressive data are – think e.g. photos. Even then, not the information and ideas
expressed in them)
✓ Any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation,
concept, principle, or discovery

65. What cannot be copyrighted?
✓ Data
(Well, depending on what the data are. Factual data are not copyrightable. Creative or
expressive data are – think e.g. photos. Even then, not the information and ideas
expressed in them)
✓ Any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation,
concept, principle, or discovery
(Regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied)
✓ Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans

66. What cannot be copyrighted?
✓ Data
(Well, depending on what the data are. Factual data are not copyrightable. Creative or
expressive data are – think e.g. photos. Even then, not the information and ideas
expressed in them)
✓ Any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation,
concept, principle, or discovery
(Regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied)
✓ Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans

67. What cannot be copyrighted?
✓ Data
(Well, depending on what the data are. Factual data are not copyrightable. Creative or
expressive data are – think e.g. photos. Even then, not the information and ideas
expressed in them)
✓ Any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation,
concept, principle, or discovery
(Regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied)
✓ Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans

68. What cannot be copyrighted?
✓ Data
(Well, depending on what the data are. Factual data are not copyrightable. Creative or
expressive data are – think e.g. photos. Even then, not the information and ideas
expressed in them)
✓ Any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation,
concept, principle, or discovery
(Regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied)
✓ Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans
Nobody mentions
nanopublications!

69. Access charges

70. Depends on ©
Access charges

71. Depends on ©
Access charges
Not compatible

72. Authority services

73. Depends on need
Authority services

74. Depends on need
Authority services
compatible

75. Authority services?

76. Authority services?
Think:

77. Authority services?
Think:
✓ driver’s licence

78. Authority services?
Think:
✓ driver’s licence
✓ diploma

79. Authority services?
Think:
✓ driver’s licence
✓ diploma
✓ acceptance in journal

80. Authority services?
Think:
✓ driver’s licence
✓ diploma
✓ acceptance in journal
...

81. Authority services?
Think:
✓ driver’s licence
✓ diploma
✓ acceptance in journal
...
...

82. Authority services?
Think:
✓ driver’s licence
✓ diploma
✓ acceptance in journal
✓ ... acceptance in OPS
...

83. t e m
S y s
g o
E

84. t e m
S y s
g o Impact?
E

86. “Scientific impact is the sound
you hear if you drop a feather
down the Grand Canyon and
wait for the echo.”
Paraphrasing Don Marquis, 1878-1937

87. “The notion of impact is incoherent, likely
to reward the sensationalist and second-
rate ... and risks turning academics into
door-to-door salesmen for vulgarised
versions of their increasingly market-
oriented products.”
Stefan Collini, professor of intellectual history and English
literature at the University of Cambridge

88. impact : citation
famous : known

89. t e m
y s
Citation,
S
g o
Acknowledgement!
E

91. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> publish or perish! .

92. Articles
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> publish or perish! .

93. Articles
Data?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> publish or perish! .

94. Articles
Data?
This recent paper (September 7, 2011)
.
PLoS ONE 6(9): e24357. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0024357
suggests not:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> publish or perish!
“A substantial proportion of original research papers published
in high-impact journals are either not subject to any data
availability policies, or do not adhere to the data availability
instructions in their respective journals.”

95. Enable
citation (acknowledgement) scores for
data

96. Enable
citation (acknowledgement) scores for
data
First step: provenance attribution

97. ?

98. ?
Will authors/funders pay?

99. Convenience services

100. Depends on desire
Convenience services

101. Depends on desire
Convenience services
compatible

102. Convenience services?

103. Convenience services?
Think:

104. Convenience services?
Think:
✓ indexing

105. Convenience services?
Think:
✓ indexing
✓ cleaning

106. Convenience services?
Think:
✓ indexing
✓ cleaning
✓ standardising

107. Convenience services?
Think:
✓ indexing
✓ cleaning
✓ standardising
✓ ranking

108. Convenience services?
Think:
✓ indexing
✓ cleaning
✓ standardising
✓ ranking
✓ aggregating

109. Convenience services?
Think:
✓ indexing
✓ cleaning
✓ standardising
✓ ranking
✓ aggregating
✓ visualising

110. Convenience services?
Think:
✓ indexing
✓ cleaning
✓ standardising
✓ ranking
✓ aggregating
✓ visualising
✓ integrating

111. Convenience services?
Think:
✓ indexing
✓ cleaning
✓ standardising
✓ ranking
✓ aggregating
✓ visualising
✓ integrating
...

112. Convenience services?
Doesn’t ‘open’ mean ‘free’?
Think:
It means ‘free’ as in ‘free to
travel’, but if you want to travel
fast, you still need to pay for the
train

113. Does ‘open’ mean ‘immediate’?
Not necessarily – Open after a
short delay and charging for
immediacy may be an option.

114. However, paying money is not
the only way

115. However, paying money is not
the only way
Paying attention

116. Advertising & affiliations
compatible

117. Depends on usage,
appropriate products
Advertising & affiliations
compatible

119. Authority services

120. Authority services
Convenience services

121. Authority services
Convenience services
Advertising & affiliations

123. Concrete
practical
small

124. Concrete
practical
small
Grand, vague,
pipe-dream-oid

125. Concrete
practical
small
Grand, vague,
pipe-dream-oid

127. Every problem has its solution

128. Every solution has its problem

129. Thank you
velterop aqnowledge.com
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130. Pictures in slides – acknowledgements
• Loaves and fishes mosaic: Benedictine Monastery at the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes
• Braided river: unknown
• Earth: NASA
• Coins: unknown
• Parachute: Airborne Systems EPC
• Mouse trap: www.wizzairsucks.com
• Columns: unknown
• Padlock: unknown
• Fly swatter: clipart www.cksinfo.com
• Louis XVI (by Antoine-François Callet): Wikipedia
• Execution of Louis XVI: unknown
• Grand Canyon: own photo
• Problem Solver: www.funny-wallpapers.com