Proprietary data formats block health research

Prenormative Research into Standard Messaging Formats for Engineering Materials Data

To qualify materials for specific applications comprehensive testing is necessary, and consequently the engineering materials community has developed an extensive collection of documentary testing standards to define test conditions, specimen configurations, and post processing and reporting procedures. Unfortunately, in the absence of corresponding data formats, test results are rarely conserv...

Data formats for phonological corpora

The annotation of linguistic resources has long-standing traditions (see Cole et al., 2010). The other chapters of this book make clear that the production of annotated resources is a laborious, time-consuming, andexpensive task. In theory, we want to make these resources available in such a way that they can be re-used by as many scholars as possible (see Ide&Romary, 2002). However, a largevar...

Myriad after Myriad: the Proprietary Data Dilemma.

Myriad Genetics' long-time monopoly on BRCA gene testing was significantly narrowed by the Supreme Court's decision in AMP v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., and will be further narrowed in the next few years as many of its still-valid patents expire. But these developments have not caused the company to acquiesce in competition. Instead, it has launched a litigation offensive against a number of actual...

Proprietary data systems: help or hindrance?

Mediating Among Diverse Data Formats

The growth of the Internet and other global networks has made large quantities of data available in a wide variety of formats. Unfortunately, most programs are only able to interpret a small number of formats, and cannot take advantage of data in unfamiliar formats. As the Internet grows, new applications arise, and legacy data persists, the diversity of formats will continue to increase, worse...