Openness: for your research and for India

Openness: for your research and for India Stian Håklev Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto Presented at Indian Institute for Public Administration, Delhi, January 4, 2010

Outline Open research Meaning of openness Stories of openness India: OER and open government

Open research

Previous knowledge

Libraries

OpenLib frontpage

OpenLib Sanskrit 1

OpenLib sanskrit 2

Ulib telugu

Journals

Conversation

Mailing lists Virtual conferences Blogs Turning journal articles into conversations Open Notebook Science

Useful Chem

Open Source Software Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Advanced mathematics and statistics Mobile device emulators Bibliography management Open Office Etc…

Openness as a transformative value

s in speech/beer 24

free software 25

creative commons 26

ccmixter 27

ﬂickr cc 28

Different meanings of open 29

Three pillars of openness Open license Open ﬁles/data Open collaboration

wikipedia 31

the story of a seed 33

a story enabled by openness 37

Two case studies from India

nptel youtube 48

IIT Youtube 1

egyankosh yt 50

egyan tsp list 51

egyan book 52

ind textbook main 53

ind textbook fpag 54

By making India’s research and teaching available you beneﬁt the world – and India itself!

Open government

British government Public data will be published in reusable, machine-readable form Public data will be available and easy to ﬁnd through a single easy to use online access point Public data will be published using open standards and following the recommendations of the World Wide Web Consortium Any ‘raw’ dataset will be represented in linked data form More public data will be released under an open licence which enables free reuse, including commercial reuse Data underlying the Government’s own websites will be published in reusable form for others to use Personal, classiﬁed, commercially sensitive and third-party data will continue to be protected.

Thank you and good luck! Stian Håklev shaklev@gmail.com http://reganmian.net

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