agu data sharing

AGU 2008

data sharing and science: legal, normative, and social issues

john wilbankscreative commons / science commons

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licensingstep 1: choose conditions

licensingstep 2: receive a license

Ported to 50 Jurisdictions

160M

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1. bait and switch: data integration.

databases as unique entities, instead of nodes in a network

“packages”

scalable aggregation

not-software

scalable

modular

lots of peopleopen licenses

community norms

science is not unlike wikipedia...

...except authenticated, and expensive.

science is not unlike wikipedia...

2. analog laws and norms, digital world.

internet

web

research web

network of computers

network of documents

network of knowledge

internet

web

research web

tcp/ip

http, html, URL

RDF, OWL, URI

internet

web

research web

tcp/ip

http, html, URL

RDF, OWL, URI

© creative expression

the container, not the facts.

the container, not the facts.

but © locks the container.

IGFBP-5 plays a role in the regulation of cellular senescence via a p53-dependent pathway and in aging-associated vascular diseases

IGFBP-5 plays a role in the regulation of cellular senescence via a p53-dependent pathway and in aging-associated vascular diseases

http://orpheus-1.ucsd.edu/acq/license/cdlelsevier2004.pdf

indexing: disallowed.

creativework?

http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gkm1037/DC1/1

legal integration: impossible.

and what about ontologies?

copyrightable?

copyrightable?

“it’s complicated.”

•extension (quality control: spam and junk)

•remix (brand confusion, loss of integrity and attribution)

•formats (failure to adhere to common protocols or technology)

•persistence (the transient nature of all Web things...)

incremental innovation in the law:

more accretion than innovation.

3. basic requirements for modular, package-based

approaches to “knowledge”

e pluribus unum.

a repository of ontologies, namespaces, and integrated

databases.

http://neurocommons.org

it starts with the public domain.

“requests but does not require”

the freedom to integrate

identical to genome licensing

requires a modular, standards-based

approach to licensing.

license propagation: whatsoever you do to the least of the databases, you do to the integrated

system

license propagation: whatsoever you do to the least of the databases, you do to the integrated

system

(the most restrictive license wins)

a protocol, not a license

3.1 The protocol must promote legal predictability and certainty.

3.2 The protocol must be easy to use and understand.

3.3 The protocol must impose the lowest possible transaction costs on users.

converge on the public domain:“norms, not laws”

conclusion?

1. start with the public domain.

2. design data for use, not control.

3. hack and release!

“a running Neurocommons mirror consumes a fair amount of system resources”

http://kingsley.idehen.name:8890

http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/VirtEC2AMINeuroCommonsInstall

thank you

wilbanks@creativecommons.org

http://sciencecommons.org