Unified and  pluralistic ideals for data sharing and reuse in biodiversity

We describe and illustrate unified and pluralistic ideals for biodiversity data pooling and show how communities may advance toward these ideals using different heuristic strategies. We present evidence for the strengths and limitations of the unification and pluralistic ideals based on systemic relationships of power, responsibility and benefit they establish among stakeholders, and we conclude the pluralistic ideal is better suited for biodiversity data.
Source: Database : The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation - Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research