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26. International Developments: A Context for theCreation of a Microbiology Commons
Pages 185-190

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... Finland has developed a new technology award, the Millennium Technology Award, which is their attempt to do the same thing for technology that the Nobel prizes from Sweden do for different areas of science. Some amazing people have won the awards -- the researcher who developed the World Wide Web, the scientist who developed the technology for light-emitting diodes, and so forth.
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From page 186...
... It came out of the Marshall Plan at the end of World War II, and the United States was one of founding members. The OECD brings members together to support sustainable economic growth and maintain financial stability.
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From page 187...
... So we were pleased to come up with a set of recommended guidelines, released in December 2006,70 which promoted access to publicly funded research data at little or no cost. A second OECD recommendation, this one released in 2008 in preparation for a ministerial on the future of the Internet, offered ways to enhance access to public sector information.71 If you are looking for any kind of guidelines in these areas, you might find these two documents of help.
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From page 188...
... Finally the fourth set was for BRCs holding and supplying human-derived materials. The guidelines set forth methodologies for preservation, replication, and quality control, and they attempted to provide internationally unified quality control.
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From page 189...
... Even if they wanted to share data -- this was in brain research, which spans the range from molecular and genomic on up to information that is clinically relevant -- they did not know how to operate with regard to identifying or making useful the information that was put away in data collections. So when you talk about the Berners-Lee World Wide Web activity and being able to find things on the Web, I think what people are missing is the real challenge of what we call the long tail of small data.
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From page 190...
... them in any way that makes them easy to find. It would be great if the OECD would organize an effort with the information technologists -- the knowledge management engineers, if you like -- to help make that easier for the inexperienced scientists who are dealing with this problem.
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