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