[Taxacom] Open, Free (was: The economics of biodiversity database initiatives)

[Tony.Rees at csiro.au]

Hi Rafaël,

That is indeed good news. I will look forward to reading the revised "Terms of Use" statement when available with the new release of The Plant List ( version 1.1) and hope that I can then easily upload and build upon TPL content for use in my own system/s, as has not been possible (without explicit permission) up till now.

Thanks for the alert,

Regards - Tony


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rafaël Govaerts [mailto:R.Govaerts at kew.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 October 2013 9:10 AM
> To: Rees, Tony (CMAR, Hobart); david.j.patterson at asu.edu
> Cc: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: RE: [Taxacom] Open, Free (was: The economics of biodiversity
> database initiatives)
> 
> Hi Tony,
> The Plant List is about to change that. Read bottom line:
> http://www.theplantlist.org/announcement/
> Rafael
> ________________________________________
> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [taxacom-
> bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Tony.Rees at csiro.au
> [Tony.Rees at csiro.au]
> Sent: 28 October 2013 21:59
> To: david.j.patterson at asu.edu
> Cc: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: [Taxacom] Open,        Free (was: The economics of
> biodiversity database initiatives)
> 
> Hi Paddy,
> 
> "Open, Free"... dangerous words round these parts...
> 
> E.g. "No derivatives" on The Plant List (www.theplantlist.org), also
> now on the newest version of PaleoDB at www.paleobiodb.org ...
> 
> Cheers - Tony
> 
> Dr Tony Rees
> Manager | Divisional Data Centre
> Marine and Atmospheric Research
> CSIRO
> E Tony Rees at csiro.au T +61 3 6232 5318
> CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, GPO Box 1538, Hobart, TAS 7001,
> Australia
> www.cmar.csiro.au/datacentre
> Manager, OBIS Australia regional Node, http://www.obis.au
> LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tony-rees/18/770/36
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-
> > bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of David Patterson
> > Sent: Tuesday, 29 October 2013 8:14 AM
> > To: Rafaël Govaerts
> > Cc: Taxacom; Paul Kirk
> > Subject: Re: [Taxacom] The economics of biodiversity database
> > initiatives
> >
> > Good to see that it is there.  Sad that I cannot gain access to a
> > quality
> > image.
> >
> > I agree with Alastair on the value of these initiatives, and cannot
> for
> > the
> > life of me see any reasonable justification for the 'nay-saying'.
> The
> > reasons why many biodiversity initiatives don't match up to GenBank
> > lies
> > partly in the timely origins of GenBank alongside molecular
> > technologies,
> > whereas the transformation of biodiversity studies to digital has
> been
> > distributed across space and time, hence the heterogeneity.  And the
> > information was never conceived as moving into an open and public
> > environment, hence the variation in quality.  But if we take
> collective
> > responsibility for gaps and errors and applause, and only if
> providers
> > adopt appropriate annotation technologies, we will have a process for
> > continuous quality improvement.
> >
> > Federation, Integration, Annotation, Open, Free.
> >
> > David Patterson
> >
> >
ebrating 26 years of Taxacom in 2013.