Addressing data property rights concerns and providing incentives for collaborative data pooling: the West African Vegetation Database approach
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Auteurs : Thomas Jan En ; Marco Schmidt ; Stefan Dressler ; Karen Hahn ; Mipro Hien ; Souleymane Konaté ; Anne Mette Lykke ; Ali Mahamane ; Bienvenu Sambou ; Brice Sinsin ; Adjima Thiombiano ; Rüdiger Wittig ; Georg ZizkaSource :
- Journal of Vegetation Science [ 1100-9233 ] ; 2011-08.
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Question: How can quantitative data from vegetation surveys best be assembled in a large regional vegetation database? What effects have intellectual property rights concerns of individual and institutional data holders on data contribution and how can incentives to contribute data be generated?
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What effects have intellectual property rights concerns of individual and institutional data holders on data contribution and how can incentives to contribute data be generated?</p><p><b>Location: </b> West Africa, with discussion of a possible approach to dealing with property rights concerns being of wider interest.</p><p><b>Methods: </b> The management of data property rights in the West African Vegetation Database was developed based on consultations with institutions and scientists in five West African countries over 2 years. It was agreed in two successive Memoranda of Understanding.</p><p><b>Results: </b> The West African Vegetation Database addresses property rights concerns by leaving the control over data access with the data owners, and provides incentives to build a distributed research community by fostering data sharing.</p><p><b>Conclusion: </b> We present a potential solution to the problem of intellectual property rights issues being an impediment to data sharing and the compilation of large regional vegetation databases. The data property rights management approach implemented in the West African Vegetation Database provided incentives for the contribution of recently acquired and unpublished data. Numerous phytosociological and dendrometric vegetation surveys have been made available by institutions and individual researchers for regional‐scale analyses. The structures developed may serve as a model for regional‐scale vegetation databases in collaborative settings involving multiple data owners.</p></abstract></abstractGroup></contentMeta><noteGroup><note xml:id="fn2"><p><b>Schmidt, M.</b> (corresponding author, <email normalForm="marco.schmidt@senckenberg.de">marco.schmidt@senckenberg.de</email>), <b>Dressler, S.</b> (<email normalForm="sdressle@senckenberg.de">sdressle@senckenberg.de</email>), <b>Hahn, K.</b> (<email normalForm="karen.hahn@bio.uni-frankfurt.de">karen.hahn@bio.uni‐frankfurt.de</email>), <b>Wittig, R.</b> (<email normalForm="r.wittig@em.uni-frankfurt.de">r.wittig@em.uni‐frankfurt.de</email>) & <b>Zizka, G.</b> (<email normalForm="gzizka@senckenberg.de">gzizka@senckenberg.de</email>): Goethe University, Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Siesmayerstr. 70, 60323 Frankfurt, Germany
<b>Schmidt, M.</b>, <b>Hahn, K.</b>, <b>Wittig, R.</b> & <b>Zizka, G.</b>: Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK‐F), Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany
<b>Janßen, T.</b> (<email normalForm="thomas.janssen@br.fgov.be">thomas.janssen@br.fgov.be</email>): National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Domein van Bouchout, 1860 Meise, Belgium
<b>Dressler, S., Janßen, T., Schmidt, M.</b> & <b>Zizka, G.</b>: Department of Botany and Molecular Evolution, Research Institute Senckenberg, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany
<b>Hien, M.</b> (<email normalForm="mipro_hien@univ-ouaga.bf">mipro_hien@univ‐ouaga.bf</email>): Department of Water and Forest, Polytechnical University of Bobo‐Dioulasso, 01 BP 1091, Bobo‐Dioulasso 01, Burkina Faso
<b>Konaté, S.</b> (<email normalForm="konate@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de">konate@biozentrum.uni‐wuerzburg.de</email>): Université de Abobo‐Adjamé, Station d' Ecologie Tropicale de LAMTO, BP 28 N' Douci, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
<b>Lykke, A.M.</b> (<email normalForm="aml@dmu.dk">aml@dmu.dk</email>): Department of Terrestrial Ecology, NERI National Environmental Research Institute, Aarhus University, Vejlsøvej 25, 8600 Silkeborg, Denmark
<b>Mahamane, A.</b> (<email normalForm="ali_mahamane@yahoo.fr">ali_mahamane@yahoo.fr</email>): Laboratory Garba Mounkaila of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University Abdou Moumouni of Niamey, BP 10662, Niamey, Niger
<b>Sambou, B.</b> (<email normalForm="bienvenu.sambou@ucad.edu.sn">bienvenu.sambou@ucad.edu.sn</email>): Institute of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, BP 5005, Dakar, Senegal
<b>Sinsin, B.</b> (<email normalForm="bsinsin@gmail.com">bsinsin@gmail.com</email>): Laboratory of Applied Ecology, University of Abomey‐Calavi, 03 BP 1974 Cotonou, Benin
<b>Thiombiano, A.</b> (<email normalForm="adjima_thiombiano@yahoo.fr">adjima_thiombiano@yahoo.fr</email>): Laboratory of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of Ouagadougou, UFR Life and Earth Sciences, 03 BP 848, Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso.</p></note><note xml:id="fn1"><p>Co‐ordinating Editor: Robert Peet</p></note></noteGroup></header></component></istex:document></istex:metadataXml><mods version="3.6"><titleInfo lang="en"><title>Addressing data property rights concerns and providing incentives for collaborative data pooling: the West African Vegetation Database approach</title></titleInfo><titleInfo type="abbreviated" lang="en"><title>West African Vegetation Database</title></titleInfo><titleInfo type="alternative" contentType="CDATA" lang="en"><title>Addressing data property rights concerns and providing incentives for collaborative data pooling: the West African Vegetation Database approach</title></titleInfo><name type="personal"><namePart 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