Panton Principles

The principles were written by Peter Murray-Rust, Cameron Neylon, Rufus Pollock, and John Wilbanks.

These licenses make it impossible to effectively integrate and re-purpose datasets and prevent commercial activities that could be used to support data preservation.

Explicit dedication of data underlying published science into the public domain via PDDL or CCZero is strongly recommended and ensures compliance with both the Science Commons Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data and the Open Knowledge/Data Definition.

[2] Between the launch of the project and December 2011 the principles gained 150 endorsements from researchers.

[4] The project won an innovation prize from the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.