Paual Le Dieu who describes herself as an “(i)commonist” talks about the science commons. She works on the BBC’s “creative archives” — the generous licensing of BBC content — and is the director of Creative Commons International. (I’m writing an article for Wired on the BBC’s progressive content policies, so I will be tracking her down…) There are 12-14 million web page swith a Creative Commons license.

Science Commons aims at enabling “the creation of an open, accessible commons for scientific knowledge.” There’s obviously lots of scientific information online, but access is spotty at best. To get SC off the ground, it’d be good to show the impact of one’s work, she says. Paula points to CC Mixter, a music mixing site, as an example of a site that shows the sources one’s work draws on and the sources that cite one’s work.

This year they will be publishing a semantic web browser + cc publisher.

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