The participants in this session will be:
- Samuel Van Ransbeeck / Listen to your data!I would like to talk about sonification, or the transformation of data into sound. I believe that through sonification, we can bring an aesthetic experience to the public and turn something very abstract (data) into something poetic. We run the risk in Data science (or Big Data) of losing the human dimension. By creating a poetic experience, we can let the public experience the abstractness of data. This in turn will create awareness on the issue that the dataset is focused on and as a further result can create engagement to instigate change. I will explain this vision through a few examples.
- Paola Masuzzo / MULTIMOTMULTIMOT is a project that aims to build an open data ecosystem for cell migration research, through standardization, dissemination and meta-analysis efforts.
The central goal of this project is to construct an open and free data exchange ecosystem for cell migration data, based on the development of extensible community standards and a robust, future-proof repository that collects, annotates and disseminates these data in the standardized formats. The standards and repository will be supported by freely available and open source tools for data management, submission, extraction and analysis.
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http://multimot.org/- Okafor Akachukwu / OpenEducation NigeriaIt's a project that will campaign for OpenAccess and OpenEducation in Nigeria.
- Hayoung Shin / Commons Prjoects in KoreaDelivering one of the dynamic commons growing state in the world, Korea in OpenCon2015. Open Access projects in Korea with Open Access Portal collaborated with National Library of Korea, Open Education projects in higher education OER platform of universities and government, student and teacher's voluntary works on OER as CC Teachers. Open Data for a civic hacking group as CodeNamu, platform for sharing city movement of Seoul metropolitan city as ShareHub. These commons projects in Korea are going with Creative Commons Korea, holding CC Global Summit2015.
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www.cckorea.org- Brady Yano / #textbookbrokeBCSimilar to the #textbookbroke campaign started by USPIRG, the #textbookbrokeBC campaign has two primary goals. The first is to educate campus communities across the province of British Columbia, Canada on the high costs associated with textbooks, while the second is aimed at informing them of the alternatives that exist. Through physical tabling as well as a photo campaign, there has been success at both Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia (the province’s two largest post-secondary institutions) driven by undergraduate students.
- Molly Schwartz / MyData: solutions for openness + privacyBorn out of an Open Knowledge Finland initiative, MyData is a project working on new personal data management solutions.
- Salima Rehemtula / Open Access Week Kit
This Kit aims to provide a set of suggestions and materials for promoting the Open Access Week in Portugal. It was realized by the Communication and Dissemination Team of the Open Access Science Repository of Portugal (RCAAP), coordinated by the Library of Faculty of Science and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. The Kit is organized into two parts, based on the degree of effort needed to implement the suggestions and use of materials. Two webinars were conducted to help the institutions to use the Kit. We registered a great adhesion to this initiative on the part of the institutions.
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http://www.acessolivre.pt/semana/?p=1503 - Salima Rehemtula / Blimunda ProjectBlimunda Project is an initiative carried out in Portugal, since 2010, by the Library of Faculty of Science and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, with the purpose of determining Portuguese scientific publishers and journals policies regarding self-archiving in Institutional Repositories. The project arose in the context of the Open Access Science Repository of Portugal (RCAAP) and was sponsored by the Foundation for National Scientific Computing (FCCN). This Project contributed to the "awakening "of publishers and journals towards Open Access and its benefits.
