Three pillars of open science
Luis Ibáñez, Rick Avila, and Stephen Aylward, Open Source and Open Science: How it is Changing the Medical Imaging Community, in Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano, 2006: 3rd IEEE International Symposium, IEEE, April 6, 2006, pp. 690-693. (Thanks to Ahmed Hindawi.) Not even an abstract of the version published in the volume of conference proceedings is free online, at least so far, but here’s the abstract of the version presented at the conference:
The Open Science movement advances the idea that the results of scientific research must be made available as public resource. Limiting access to scientific information hinders innovation, complicates validation, and wastes valuable socio-economic resources. Open Science is an efficient way of overcoming the nearsightedness of the contemporary obsession with intellectual property. The practice of Open Science is based on three pillars: Open Access, Open Data, and Open Source. Given that the practice of medical image research pertains to a field that affects the health condition of the public, it is of paramount importance to introduce the concepts of Open Science in domains such as animal research, drug discovery, clinical trials, computer assisted diagnosis and computer assisted treatment.
From the body of the paper:
Open Source, Open Access and Open Data make possible to
restore the openness that must characterize the endeavor of
scientific research but that unfortunately has been lost in the
ambitious quest for ownership of intellectual property. This
openness brings both ethical and technical advantages to the
practice of scientific research, which is of foremost
importance in the domain of medical imaging, where public
funds are commonly invested with the purpose of improving
the health care delivered to the population.
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