Open resources at INRIA

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Open resourcesatINRIA
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• Presented by
• Bernard Lang
• created with openoffice.org

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Overview

• Research and Valorization
• Valorization policies
• FLOSS Free Libre Open Source Software
• Open Source Licences
• Open Archives

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Research and Valorization

• Valorization of research return on investment
• Production of research
• papers software data know-how
  education / expertise
• Type of return
• money fame knowledge data technical
  ressources
• Improvement economic social education
  management
• Sovereignty e.g. security, technology, culture
• Return for whom ?
• Researcher team institute country
  Science mankind
• Return when ?
• choices, conflicts gt policies

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Valorization Policies

• Flexible and varied policies
• from open/free to very proprietary
• to accomodate parameters
• actors context type of result
• by all available means
• Intellectual property
• Start-ups
• Consortiums
• Proprietary licencing ... exclusive or
  non-exclusive
• Open access / open source
• Etc. alone or in combination

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FLOSS Free Libre Open Source Software

• Considerable software production
• Significant part is distributed as free software
  (CD, WEB)
• Choice of licence is opportunity based
  (valorization)
• Large number of free software based industrial
  and academic cooperations.
• INRIA regularly participate in Free Software
  Events
• sponsored the first one in 1998 in Paris
• Regularly represented at Solutions Linux (Paris
  in February)
• Major participant at Paris Capital du Libre in
  2006
• Represented in various events around the world

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CeCILL free software licences

• Need for French free software licences
• Meeting French constraints legal and
  linguistic
• Properly interpreted under French and European
  law
• Compatible with current free software practice
  or licences
• 3 Licences produced by CEA, CNRS and INRIA
• CeCILL-A similar to and fully compatible with
  GNU GPL (2004)
• CeCILL-B similar to BSD
• CeCILL-C similar to GNU LGPL
• Coherent family available in English and French
• Now ported at European level

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Open Archives

• Idea launched by physicists in early 90s ArXiv
  Los Alamos
• World-wide move for freely accessible scientific
  publications
• 2004 INRIA signs the Berlin declaration (with
  CNRS, INRA, INSERM)
• 2005 INRIA open archives, built on HAL (Hyper
  Article on-Line)
• Purposes
• Free access to knowledge
• Control of scientific results by the scientific
  community
• Accessible, without charge, universal and
  interoperable
• Visibility of scientific results
• Long term preservation of scientific memory
  (stable address)

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Open Archives - HAL

• Today a national / International cooperation
• 2006 Common Repository Memorandum
• CEMAGREF, CIRAD, CNRS, INRA, INRIA, Inserm, IRD
  andPasteur Institute
• Supported by French Science Academy
• Based on HAL, developped by CCSD at CNRS
• Interoperable with existing repositories
• each institution can access (put, fetch) through
  its local repository,
• according to local format and practices.

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What else ?

• Data e.g. Lexicons grammar corpora . .
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• Courseware
• Lectures and audiovisual resources
• What are the proper licences ? (database law)
• Is current law compatible with desirable
  practices, such as evolution sharing ?
• Imagining, testing and analysing new cooperative
  practices
• Cooperative quality assessment
• Open-source specific research issues
• Improving global competence through free tools
  availability