It's all in the timing: calibrating temporal penalties for biomedical data sharing.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Biomedical science is driven by datasets that are being accumulated at an unprecedented rate, with ever-growing volume and richness. There are various initiatives to make these datasets more widely available to recipients who sign Data Use Certificate agreements, whereby penalties are levied for violations. A particularly popular penalty is the temporary revocation, often for several months, of the recipient's data usage rights. This policy is based on the assumption that the value of biomedical research data depreciates significantly over time; however, no studies have been performed to substantiate this belief. This study investigates whether this assumption holds true and the data science policy implications.

Methods

This study tests the hypothesis that the valu

SUBMITTER: Xia W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6080807 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature