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Taylor Campbell

Project Lead, Open Science (she/her)

Taylor leads the Open Climate Data Project at Creative Commons, which provides practical guidance to agencies like the World Meteorological Organization, NASA, and NOAA for open licensing and attribution of climate data worldwide. She also leads the Openly Licensing Life Sciences Preprints Project, advocating for the expansion of openly-licensed research preprints and open access to science. She joins us from prior work with with the Bezos Earth Fund, Georgetown University, the City of Los Angeles, the Obama White House, and the Black Lives Matter Global Network. She enjoys designing programmatic solutions and workflows for public impact, facilitating dialogue across diverse communities and institutions of power, gardening, and thrifting.

Posts by Taylor Campbell

CC Open Science: 2024 Year in Review

by Monica Granados, Taylor Campbell Open Climate, Open Science

Science by Steve Rotman is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Access to science is a fundamental human right, and yet, much of that public good is inaccessible because of paywalls and limited in its reuse because of restrictive copyright licenses. The CC licenses are an essential part of open science infrastructure and provide a legal…

From Recommendations to Implementation: Increasing Access to Climate Data for Earth Intelligence

by Taylor Campbell, Jan Ainali Open Access, Open Climate, Open Science

Screenshot by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Earlier this year, Creative Commons published our Recommendations for Better Sharing of Climate Data, a seminal resource to help national and intergovernmental climate data-producing agencies use legal terms, licenses, and metadata values that ensure climate data is accessible, shareable, and reusable. Our goal is to…

Recommended Best Practices for Better Sharing of Climate Data

by Taylor Campbell, Wanying Li, Cable Green Open Data

At Creative Commons, we believe that addressing global challenges like the climate crisis requires opening the knowledge about those challenges. We are thrilled to announce the release of our “Recommendations for Better Sharing of Climate Data”— the culmination of a nine-month research initiative from our Open Climate Data project. These guidelines are a result of…

Surveying the Open Climate Data Landscape

by Taylor Campbell, Cable Green Open Climate, Open Data

At CC we believe that to solve big problems, the knowledge and culture about those problems needs to be open and freely accessible. In line with our Open Climate Campaign, which focuses on opening up climate research, we recently launched the Open Climate Data project, to facilitate better sharing of climate data on a global…