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| ===John Wilbanks, Executive Director of Science Commons===
| | '''[[Seminar Series/John Wilbanks|John Wilbanks]]''': March 24th, 2006 |
| 1pm, Friday March 24, 2006<br>
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| [[Media:WilbanksPoster.pdf|Talk Poster]] | |
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| ====Online Talk====
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| '''[http://www.archive.org/details/wilbanks2006 Downloadable Video Online]'''<br>
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| We will be working on getting streamable copies of this video online in the near future.
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| ====Talk Overview====
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| This talk lays out the basic intersections of property rights - copyrights, patents, and contracts - with scientific research. The talk also examines how approaches inspired by the Free Software movement might help create a "research commons" of freely usable tools, papers and data. Specific case studies in biological materials transfer and text mining of gene interaction networks are presented for discussion.
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| ====Biography====
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| Adapted from the [http://sciencecommons.org/about/people#jw Science Commons biography]
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| [[John Wilbanks]] is currently the Executive Director of [http://sciencecommons.org Science Commons]. Science Commons is an exploratory project to apply the philosophies and activities of [http://creativecommons.org Creative Commons] in the realm of science. Their goal is to encourage stake-holders to create areas of free access and inquiry using standardized licenses and other means; a 'Science Commons' built out of voluntary private agreements.
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| John came to Creative Commons from a Fellowship at the [http://www.w3.org/ World Wide Web Consortium] in Semantic Web for Life Sciences. Previously, he founded and led to acquisition Incellico, a bioinformatics company that built semantic graph networks for use in pharmaceutical research & development. Before founding Incellico, John was the first Assistant Director at the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/ Berkman Center for Internet and Society] at Harvard Law School. He was previously a legislative aide to [http://www.house.gov/stark/ U.S. Representative Fortney (Pete) Stark] and a grassroots coordinator and fundraiser for the American Physical Therapy Association. John holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Tulane University and studied modern letters at the Universite de Paris IV (La Sorbonne). He serves on the Advisory Board of the U.S. National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central and the International Advisory Board of the Prix Ars Electronica's Digital Communities awards.
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Revision as of 14:08, 6 April 2006
Seminar Series on Open Science
Overview
The OpenWetWare Seminar Series on Open Science is dedicated to bringing in speakers to talk about how open communities, practices, and technologies affect the culture and progress of science. This seminar series is made possible by the MIT iCampus Outreach Initiative.
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John Wilbanks: March 24th, 2006
