[GSDI Legal Econ] Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data

[Kate Lance]

http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2007/12/16/announcing-protocol-for-oa-data/
Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data (announced December 16, 2007)
The Protocol is a method for ensuring that scientific databases can be legally integrated with one another. The Protocol is built on the public domain status of data in many countries (including the United States) and provides legal certainty to both data deposit and data use. The protocol is not a license or legal tool in itself, but instead a methodology for a) creating such legal tools and b) marking data already in the public domain for machine-assisted discovery.
The Protocol was built after a year-long process of meetings and consultations with a broad set of stakeholders, including representatives of the geospatial and biodiversity science communities. Input was solicited from international representatives from China, Uganda, Brazil, Japan, France, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Colombia, Peru, Belgium, Catalonia and Spain.


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