Techniques and tools for sharing data on the web to make things easier. Guy is from microformats.org. - Cameron Neylon

recommended the "firefox operator" plug in (just google it) - Cameron Neylon

Taking us to http://scibarcamp.org/scibarc... - Cameron Neylon

showing that he has marked up a series of the tags with class attributes - Cameron Neylon

showing that the operator plugin can then pull contact information into other areas after adding class="fn" and class = "url uid external" into e.g. address books - Cameron Neylon

Now proposing key points for making science stuff available on the web - Cameron Neylon

1. Just publish it - whatever format, whatever site, however - Cameron Neylon

2. open robots.txt - make it clear that it can be scraped or whatever - Cameron Neylon

3. Public domain licence - Cameron Neylon

4. Permalinks - make sure the URLs are stable - Cameron Neylon

5. Publish reports and data in html and microformats - mmm but I would say use XML where appropriate and where a vocabulary exists - Cameron Neylon

comment on public domain dedication - that if you put it up it is indexed and archived by google etc. - Cameron Neylon

question - does that mean Tantik is not advocating use of specific data stores - saying first step is to get it up, if you can do more then great but get it up first. - Cameron Neylon

Chris asks - if someone steals a dataset then what are the practical steps to show that you had it up first - argument over exactly how google presents or caches data - Cameron Neylon

Cameron talking about making data up. :) - Andrew Lang

Cameron saves that talk. Yay! - Andrew Lang

getting too involved in the argument to liveblog now :-) - Cameron Neylon

Discussing permalinks - importance of provenance, don't edit in place, create a new version - means everything is archived separately, people can refer to specific versions - Cameron Neylon

Publish in html - question, what is the problem with pdf? What about the costs of both formats? - Cameron Neylon

What about data (as opposed to reports), surely CSV or XML are better? Question from the floor. - Cameron Neylon

talking about the lack of microformats specifically for data, only thing really relevant is hatom - Cameron Neylon

permalinks looks like something to investigate: citability.org - Andrew Lang