Archive for the ‘Open Data’ Category
Lowering Pharma firewalls: Just for Bioinformatics or Chemoinformatics also
Notion of pre-competitive collaboration has been in under experiment steadily for quite sometime now. Notable examples are the Airbus consortium of European aircraft manufacturers, the Sematech consortium of US semiconductor manufacturers, banks working together to launch Visa and Mastercard, our [...]
Big data, Big challenges
Image by Photo Blog 0001 via Flickr Recently New York Times has published a tech article about big data. According the article some of the largest technology companies like I.B.M. and Google think that students from elite American universities students [...]
Convergence and confluence of data sharing efforts
Most of data sharing policies share some common principles such as protecting the cumulative data outputs, recognizing data as a public good and data sharing as strong value chains of innovation for subsequent scientific exploitation. A improved data access and [...]
When explicit data sharing policies fall short
A recent study published in journal PLoS One suggests that explicit data sharing policies in journals do not lead authors to share data. Authors requested data from ten investigators who had published in either PLoS Medicine or PLoS Clinical and [...]
Towards a Data Democracy
Scientists often possess more data than their discovery, can we stimulate more discoveries by making this data publicly available for other riders of the science, and if yes what is the best way to do this. It’s merely not about [...]
Default openness
During recent Wired’s Disruptive By Design coenfrence chief information officer (CIO) of US government Vivek Kundra suggested that default data setting of United States government should be open, not secret. With this vision in mind Data.gov will democratize the data [...]
Public Access to data and models: Yes No Maybe
As I mentioned in my last post about public access to data and models in context of IUPS Physiome project and the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) framework, there was some serious debate on this agenda during VPH Community satellite symposium [...]
Is Data a new defensibility?
Andrew Parker comments Data is the new defensibility. Many previous forms of defensibility have melted away: patents are completely disrespected and too costly to enforce, technology and algorithms can be reverse engineered by 2 students with a case of Raman [...]
