Blog from October, 2010

Neelie Kroes on open source and the importance of communities

Gerben de Boer posted on Oct 18, 2010

Neelie Kroes on open source and the importance of communities (YouTube)

Data citation and authorship acknowledgement to stimulate data sharing

Meinte Blaas posted on Oct 04, 2010

AGU's EOS features an article on scientific acknowledgement for scientists that produce valueable data. This to stimulate them to bring out their data sets quickly. The IPY citation model is a good example. Also issues like QA and version control need to be covered when citing datasets.

http://public.deltares.nl/download/attachments/16876020/DataCitation_EOS_2010EO340001.pdf