Towards a global open scientific notebook infrastructure

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The original World Wide Web vision was of a global and shared information space, and the Web as we now know it is a powerful facilitator of scientific endeavour, as well as being vital for modern commerce, leisure, and public awareness. Recently, calls for scientific research to become more open have gathered momentum: in the UK, the Royal Society has issues a comprehensive report arguing for intelligent openness to become standard. Funding bodies across the world have mandated the sharing of data and other supporting materials generated in the course of publicly funded research. In a press release outlining measure to improve access to scientific information, the European Commission undertook to “develop and support e-infrastructures to host and share scientific information (publications and data) which are interoperable on European and global level”.<br/><br/>The infrastructures required comprise more than linked data repositories: there is widespread acceptance of the im

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