The idea is to focus not on the creation of individual data sets but to focus on the standards and shared principles and ethics that would make it possible for many people to build things that would be individually innovative and yet collectively could learn from each other.
To ensure satisfactory community assessment and method comparison, and to promote scientific progress, it is necessary to establish common standards and shared criteria that enable comparison and integration of different approaches.
As part of the Digital Bangladesh Vision 2021, initiatives to develop eHealth standards and shared health records are underway which will facilitate the provision of Universal Health Coverage, an important aspect of the post-2015 goals [ 18, 19].
Additionally, although the "omics" communities have well-established data sharing mechanisms and standards, there are many fields that produce equal if not larger data sets that are not readily sharable and that require more work for establishing standards and sharing.
In particular, efforts should be focused on the adoption of global data standards, common cyberinfrastructure, and shared informatics solutions that will ensure genetic data can be analyzed in context.
"Now that blockchain is here, what if we could launch a standard and have shared marketplace by all apps in a space?
Encourage collaboration and shared standards between local government.
This ignores the complexity which is introduced when we distinguish between shared reasons and shared standards.
Institutions encompass the "rules of the game": laws, technical standards, regulations, norms, routines, and shared expectations that guide and regulate interactions and relations between actors.
Although expensive, marked-up corpora are reusable and through collaboration and shared standards it is possible to aggregate them into larger datasets that function as improved editions as well as provide for reuse and re-purposing by other researchers.
