The first draft of Panton Principles was written in July 2009 by Peter Murray-Rust, Cameron Neylon, Rufus Pollock and John Wilbanks at the Panton Arms on Panton Street in Cambridge, UK, just down from the Chemistry Faculty where Peter works.
They were then refined with the help of the members of the [Open Knowledge Foundation Working Group on Open Data in Science](http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/science) and were [officially launched in February 2010](https://blog.okfn.org/2010/02/19/launch-of-the-panton-principles-for-open-data-in-science/).
