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Title:
Data Sharing and Science: Legal, Normative, and Social Issues
Authors:
Wilbanks, J.; Parsons, M.
Affiliation:
AA(; ), AB(Creative Commons / Science Commons, c.o MIT CSAIL, 32-386D 32 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States ; )
Publication:
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #IN12A-02
Publication Date:
12/2008
Origin:
AGU
AGU Keywords:
6620 Science policy (0485)
Abstract Copyright:
(c) 2008: American Geophysical Union
Bibliographic Code:
2008AGUFMIN12A..02W

Abstract

The volume of scientific data, and the interconnectedness of the systems under study, makes integration of data a necessity. For example, life scientists must integrate data from across biology and chemistry to comprehend disease and discover cures, and climate change scientists must integrate data from wildly diverse disciplines to understand our current state and predict the impact of new policies. The technical challenge of such integration is significant, although emerging technologies appear to be helping. But the forest of terms and conditions around data make integration difficult to legally perform in many cases. One approach might be to develop and recommend a single license: any data with this license can be integrated with any other data under this license. But this approach, which implicitly builds on intellectual property rights and the ideas of licensing as understood in software and culture, is difficult to scale for scientific uses. There are too many databases under too many terms already, and it is unlikely that any one license or suite of licenses will have the correct mix of terms to gain critical mass and allow massive- scale machine integration of data. This talk will instead lay out principles for open access data and a protocol for implementing those principles, as well as describe various international efforts to make data and databases legally and technically interoperable.
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