Ian Davis was recently quoted saying\nopen data is more important than open source, which was pulled (out of context) from this presentation.\nThe context was (a slide earlier): Data outlasts code.
\n\nAs far as I can see, this is utter nonsense, even within context of the slide (see also this\ndiscussion on FriendFeed). Obviously, within the context of\nIan it does makes sense, and I hope he will respond in his blog and explain why he thinks Open Data is more special.
\n\nWithout code, you have no way of accessing the data. Ask anyone to recover from a hard disk failure. In\nODOSOS (Open Standards, Open Data, Open Source) they are all equal. You need them all for progress.\nYou cannot single out one as being more important than another. Why would you anyway? Politics is all I can think of… All three combine and ensure\nour science is more efficient.
\n\nFishy Perspective (what’s in a name) comments on this in Data Vendetta,\nand I will take one quote out of context:
\n\n\n\n\nOrganizations are spending lot of money do generate proprietary data to safeguard its competitive edge, why you are convinced that\nthey need to disclose that, no one is here for charity. Most the companies have their proprietary data policies, and they release\nthe data in public only when there is sufficient overlap from publicly available databases.
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Companies are about money making, and there is nothing wrong with that. Others to work to make the world a better place.
\n\nIf Rosalind had not shared her data (following Data Vendetta, and not going into whether she did willingly or knowingly), all current\npharmaceutical research would have been delayed by half a year(?), more(?)… who knows. Even that half year would have meant quite a lot\nof death people. A lot of medicine would have not been discovered or hit the market at the same time. Capitalism is one thing, not good,\nnot bad, orthogonal really. Capitalism as ideology does not contradict Open Data. But sharing knowledge as Open Data always has a positive\neffect on mankind.
\n\nIf you want to make money, please do, as much as you can. But please pick carefully what you want to make money on. Be creative!\nDo some innovation! Be bold! Go where no one has gone before!
", "summary": "Ian Davis was recently quoted saying open data is more important than open source, which was pulled (out of context) from this presentation. The context was (a slide earlier): Data outlasts code.", "date_published": "2009-03-03T00:00:00+00:00", "date_modified": "2009-03-03T00:00:00+00:00", "tags": ["opendata","openscience","odosos"], "authors": [ { "name": "Egon Willighagen", "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7542-0286" } ] } ] }