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Tim Churches, I believe, gave us this link: http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2724420
What is interesting to me about this story is not the specific content, but the overall assumption that having 'open data' in biomedical research is a new phenomena. And furthermore that such openness is going to be restricted to either niche areas or poor countries.
"It seems the time has come to devise a new, broader term than open source , to refer to distributed, internet-based collaboration. Mr Benkler calls it non-proprietary peer-production of information-embedding goods. Surely someone, somewhere can propose something snappier."
Long before there was internet-based collaboration, people collaborated and communicated results to each other through meetings and publications. True, that whenever someone thought a big money earning or prestige earning outcome was likely, results tended to be guarded, but in general, information was spread more or less openly as the process accellerated through the 17th century and became the science most of know today. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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