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Open Science Requires Open Source
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| The central argument is important: that you can't do science with closed
| source software, because you can't examine its assumptions or logic
| (that "incomplete scientific record"). Open science demands open source.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/04/open-science-requires-open-source.html
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Why We Need Open Data
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| The same post gives perhaps the best explanation of why open data is
| important; it's nominally about open data in science, but its points are
| valide elsewhere too:
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| * Science rests on data. Without complete data, science is flawed.
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| * Many of todays global challenges require scientific data. Climate,
| Health, Agriculture…
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| * Scientists are funded to do research and to make the results available
| to everyone. This includes the data. Funders expect this. So does the
| world.
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| * The means of dissemination of data are cheap and universal. There is no
| technical reason why all the data in all the chemistry research in the
| world should not be published into the cloud. It’s small compared with
| movies…
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| * Data needs cleaning, flitering, repurposing, re-using. The more people
| who have access to this, the better the data and the better the science.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-we-need-open-data.html
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