OPEN DATA FOR GLOBAL SCIENCE
A REVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
SCIENTIFIC DATA POLICIES AND RELATED PROPOSALS
This special volume of the CODATA Data Science Journal, available at:
http://dsj.codataweb.org/special-open-data.html, examines several govern-
mental data policy initiatives, as well as various data policy issues and
developments. Part One provides overviews of four significant recent data
policies at the intergovernmental and national levels:
1. OECD Principles and Guidelines for Access to Research Data from Public
Funding
Dirk Pilat, OECD, and Yukiko Fukasaku, Innovmond, FRANCE
2. Database Protection in Europe~WRecent Developments and a Modest Proposal
Robert Clark, School of Law, University College Dublin, IRELAND
3. Open Access to Scientific Data: Promoting Science and Innovation
Guan-Hua Xu, Ministry of Science and Technology, CHINA
4. Canadian National Consultation on Access to Scientific Research Data
Michel Sabourin, University of Montreal, and Bernard Dumouchel, Canada
Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, National Research
Council, CANADA
The articles in Part Two present different data policy issues and
developments:
5. Open Data for Global Science
Paul F. Uhlir, National Research Council, USA, and Peter Schröder, Data
Archiving and Networked Services, THE NETHERLANDS
6. Biomedical Data Sharing, Security and Standards
Belinda Seto and James Luo, National Institutes of Health, USA
7. Big Opportunities in Access to ~SSmall Science~T Data
Harlan Onsrud and James Campbell, University of Maine, USA
8. Possible Downsides to Data Sharing in the Research Commons:
Assets and Liabilities, Opportunities and Risks
Peter Schröder, Data Archiving and Networked Services, THE NETHERLANDS
Paul F. Uhlir, Editor
Special volume of the CODATA Data Science Journal on Open Data for Global
Science
Washington, DC
2007
Received on Tue Sep 18 2007 - 00:22:07 BST