<span style="display: none">Microsoft on the need for openness in scholarly tools and data</span>

The original appearance of this entry was in Danny Weitzner - Open Internet Policy

I’m sitting at the Microsoft Faculty Summit, listening to Tony Hey (VP for External Research) talk about how critical it is for scientific researchers to have open access to data and open source tools (Tony actually said ‘free software tools’) in order to solve the most critical problems of the world. Among other things, Tony highlighted the importance of attaching metadata to documents and data, mentioning some of the MSFT tools such as a MS-Office plug-in that attaches Creative Commons labels to Office docs.

Anyone who thinks that institutional views of monolithic or easy to predict….