Scientific names of organisms: attribution, rights, and licensing
Open Access
- 4 February 2014
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Research Notes
- Vol. 7 (1) , 79
Abstract
As biological disciplines extend into the ‘big data’ world, they will need a names-based infrastructure to index and interconnect distributed data. The infrastructure must have access to all names of all organisms if it is to manage all information. Those who compile lists of species hold different views as to the intellectual property rights that apply to the lists. This creates uncertainty that impedes the development of a much-needed infrastructure for sharing biological data in the digital world.Keywords
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