Panton Principles

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Data sharing provides fertile ground for derivative work: Once some scientific data were released into the Public Domain, any reuse or modifications are permitted. With legal claims to the source being waved to the maximal extent possible, community norms are invoked for usage guidance, the most essential ones within the scientific community being proper attribution as well as documentation of any further processing. This image is based on the original photo of the drafters of the Panton Principles in front of the Panton Arms pub and was obtained by mapping onto the Mandelbrot set. From left to right: Jenny Meyer, Jordan Hatcher, Rufus Pollock, John Wilbanks, Cameron Neylon, Peter Murray-Rust, Carolina Rossini.

The Panton Principles for Open Data in Science (sometimes abbreviated as PP) are recommendations for scientists on a simple standard notification to be attached to scientific data that are released to the public. The notification states, in effect, that other scientists can use the data without infringing copyrights. The idea is to promote sharing of scientific data, with the implied hope to accelerate and improve scientific research, particularly if it has been funded from public sources.

Background

Large and ever increasing amounts of scientific data are generated in the framework of scientific research projects, and scientific data in this narrow sense are the target of the Panton Principles. No clear standards exist, however, for how to label data for reuse, and this is the gap that the Panton Principles are meant to fill.[1] The name Panton Principles is derived from the Panton Arms pub in Cambridge, UK, which was the location where the principles were originally drafted, starting in June 2009. The Panton Principles were officially released for public signatures in February 2010.

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  1. Peter Murray-Rust. The Panton Principles: A breakthrough on data licensing for public science?, Unilever Cambridge Centre for Molecular Informatics, 2009-05-16. Retrieved on 2010-03-23.