open access to biodiversity scientific data a comparative.pptVIP

Future work Clarify which legal provisions apply Develop automated mechanisms for data citation as an incentive to share data Replace terms of use that makes it impossible to perform data mining and reuse the data Thanks @melanieddr @technollama * * * the notes and pictures taken during a collection of samples would be protected by copyright law as literary and artistic works respectively, while any samples or specimens themselves would not be protected. Observation results and comments made on specimen reproductions of a plant or an animal are indispensables to the understanding of the primary data that is of little value without metadata. However, copyright law could be providing a stronger protection to the photography than to the underlying data to the extend data and taxonomy are not considered as creative work. This discrepancy reveals an epistemological gap between copyright law and scientific effort conceptions of a creative or original effort, the threshold of protection. * * Biodiversity data can be considered as a cultural data to the extend databases can be produced and held by a museum of natural history and therefore outside of the scope of the 2001 Directive on reuse for Public Sector Information. It can be considered as public sector information collected by a public body and submitted to an obligation or use for any purpose, including commercial or research under the scope of this Directive. Finally, part of the biodiversity data can fall under the scope of provisions governing geographic information, in the case of geolocation data associated to a specimen and thus governed by the INSPIRE Directive establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community providing a useful framework for data sharing, in particular giving public authorities “the technical possibility to link their spatial data sets”, but offering the possibility to restrict access for reasons related to Intellectual Property Rights, without mentioning whethe