Open Source, Open Science

Dan Burk hosted a discussion about the adoption of open source strategies for science as part of the Berkman Center's Tuesday Luncheon Series.  

In the age of bioinformatics and e-science, the scientific community is increasingly advocating licensing strategies drawn from open source software development. But the culture and practice of scientific research community differs in significant ways from that of open source coding, posing new legal and cultural challenges to the adoption of open source strategies for science.