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Science opens up: Opportunities through open access and open data Canadian Science Writers' Association Sunday, June 6 from 3:15-4:00 Canada Science and Technology Museum
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The Secret Life of DataTracey P. Lauriault
Science opens up: Opportunities through open access and open data
Canadian Science Writers' AssociationSunday, June 6 from 3:15-4:00Canada Science and Technology Museum
Orientation – Openness
Open Access
Data Access
Open Government
Open Data
Imagining ourselves
NASA, Apollo 8, December 1968Earthrise
1st Data Access Campaign?
Stewart Brand, 1966 Campaign Button Editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, founded The
WELL, the Global Business Network and the Long Now Foundation.
New data
Data are more than facts, or the unique arrangement of
facts in databases.
Data are also culture & heritage artifacts, they are part of are
our collective record & they fuel our imagination.
The Continent of Science
The Antarctic Treaty System ”promotes scientific research and the exchange of
data”
Spatial Data Infrastructures & Sovereignty?
Pulsifer, Peter L., Taylor, D. R. F. 2007, Spatial Data Infrastructure: Implications for Sovereignty in the Canadian Arctic, in the Canadian Polar Commission newsletter, Meridian, spring-summer, April 25, pp. 1-5.
Scientific data and how we build the infrastructures that
create and manage them politically resonate
Radarsat 2
Canadian Space Agency Photo
Data Good & Evil?
The sensors that capture data are feats of engineering and
science. And like all technologies, we shape them and they in turn shape us.
Satellites are loaded with geo-techno-social-politics.
The beginning of the end (#64 not #42)
Data are more than facts uniquely arranged in a database
They tell stories and they provide evidence
Citizens need access to data so that we may be a part of that story telling, that collective imagination making, the narration of nation
Data inform democratic deliberations