StrainInfo.net

Integrating the Microbiological Commons

Developing Information Commons for Science in EuropeCODATA-Science Commons, The Academy Palace, Brussels, 15th september 2006

Peter DawyndtTom Dedeurwaerdere

WFCC

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An emerging information jungle

Focus on integration

Focus on integration

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Divide-and-conquer strategies

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StrainInfo.net bioportal scope

WFCC

Biodiversity hotspots

T. Gibson (971)

W.W. Ford (13)

original isolate

GUID:new isolate

GUID:NCTC 2599

GUID:ATCC 14579

GUID:Gibson 971

GUID:Ford 13

GUID:NCIMB 9373

first BRC deposit

NCIMB 9373

NCTC 2599

NRRL B-3711

ATCC 14579

strain number equivalence relationstrain deposit history relation

strain number resolution (disambiguation)BRC resolution (online catalogues)

isolate entities culture entities

new isolate

Registration Authority

Accession form

Accession form

Accession form

Accession form

end user

end user

end user

GUID:NRRL B-3711

Domain-specific regulatory bodies

Product Development

Genetic screening

Local users communities

Ecosystems that produce diversity

The science commons in the bio-economyThe science commons in the bio-economy

Social legitimacy : Build trust and new beliefs as a Social legitimacy : Build trust and new beliefs as a basis for cooperation between the actorsbasis for cooperation between the actors

Economic efficiency : Documenting the flow of Economic efficiency : Documenting the flow of resources through the entire innovation chainresources through the entire innovation chain

Institutional design : two tiered system

Licensing negotiation

Copyleft license

Collective management organisation : ex ante

negotiation of the contractual template

Third party

Other open science users

Commercial licenseCommercial

firm

Proprietary R&D

KeyData

Tom Dedeurwaerdere, “The Institutional Economics of Sharing Biological Information”, International Social Science Journal , forthcoming, fall 2006.

Reflexive Governance : organising the feedback of Reflexive Governance : organising the feedback of the actors on the institutional designthe actors on the institutional design

Origin Border authority

or national institutions

BRC / source

End users

Country of origin

1 numerical identifier

Database containing :

• numerical identifiers

• + in metadata : info on country of origin

Example : sector specific negotiation of tracking system (IPEN, Mosaicc, Kew Garden, etc.)

Tom Dedeurwaerdere, "Bioprospecting, intellectual property law and evolutionary economics: the stake of a theory of reflexive governance", in Innovative Roles of Biological Resources Centres, WFCC, 2004..

Jean Swings

Bernard De Baets Peter Dawyndt

Xianhua Zhou

Juncai Ma

S T R A I N I N F O N E T

Paul De Vos

Tom Dedeurwaerdere Philippe Desmeth

Bart Vanbrabant

A “semantic web”-enabled bioportal for integrating microbial information into global

bioinformatics networks