Draft Letter to IPCC requesting permission and offering to visit in October

[petermr]

Semantic Climate: Request for Re-use of IPCC material and Visit to Geneva

Dear IPCC (hopefully we can get the most relevant person)

From:
Gita Yadav (NIPGR, IN)
Simon Worthington (TiB, Open Science, DE)
Peter Murray-Rust (University of Cambridge, UK)
(Lydia Pinscher, Wikimedia, DE - not yet asked)
Francois Grey (University of Geneva, SDG Solution Space)

We are a global non-profit group of citizens and scientists who see the IPCC reports [1] as central knowledge tools in promoting awareness and factual authority in the global debate on Climate Change. We believe that the reports provide a central framework for discussion and give authoritative answers and predictions and that citizens globally (including teenagers) want to read them. We wish to re-use them in semantic form by transforming them into hypertext, embedding them into ontologies and adding machine actions such as indexing and navigation.

We understand the concerns of the IPCC as expressed in their Copyright statement and honour the need to keep the precise text of the reports

(More later)

[1] we concentrate on