I was surprised to learn that, like Apple, Google began its efforts by licensing petabytes of data from outside geodata companies.
The revenue model is super-local advertising, customized versions for venues (this is great for conferences), and permission based licensing of user data.
However, it has proved very difficult to maintain and changes in licensing of OMIM data mean that we may no longer be able to use this as our primary source of PDs.
"Because we went out and we licensed millions of data points on American individuals from very large reputable data aggregators and data vendors such as Acxiom, Experian, Infogroup.
The "open" movement, which promotes the use of open source licenses for data and software, started in fact in the early days of computing, when groups of scientists were sharing computers while developers were working on common source code [1].
However, the integrated data retains the licensing of the original data sources.
It could also say a bit about identifier mapping and the role of licensing in data integration.
This raises copyright, intellectual property and revenue challenges impacting on the licensing and sub-licensing of research data such as images and musical examples if researchers wanted to include certain materials in their open access monograph using digital object identifiers.
The UK government's plan is to ease the transition to open data by setting up a new Public Data Corporation, which will manage the licensing of "value added" data from organisations such as Ordnance Survey, Land Registry and the Met Office.
What I've learned from this deep dive into the making of map apps is that you can't just license a bunch of data, bake at 350 degrees and come up with a useful tool.
As an Open Access journal, open licensing of content (including data and code) is a foundational aspect and coupled with waivers, we hope to further remove barriers to adoption of material published in the journal and encourage authors from around the world to consider J. Cheminform.
