Addressing data property rights concerns and providing incentives for collaborative data pooling: The West African Vegetation Database approach

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 614-620

  Janßen, Thomas ^c,d   Schmidt, Marco ^a,b,d   Dressler, Stefan ^a,d   Hahn, Karen ^a,b   Hien, Mipro ^e   Konaté, Souleymane ^f   Lykke, Anne Mette ^g   Mahamane, Ali ^h   Sambou, Bienvenu ⁱ   Sinsin, Brice ^j   Thiombiano, Adjima ^k   Wittig, Rüdiger ^a,b   Zizka, Georg ^a,b,d  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^c BOTANIC GARDEN MEISE   (Belgium)

^d SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e Université Nazi Boni   (Burkina Faso)

^f UNIVERSITÉ NANGUI ABROGOUA   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^g AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^h UNIVERSITÉ ABDOU MOUMOUNI   (Niger)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ABOMEY CALAVI   (Benin)

^k UNIVERSITÉ DE OUAGADOUGOU   (Burkina Faso)

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Author keywords

Data property rights; Data sharing; Dendrometry; Intellectual property rights (IPR); Inventory; Modelling; Observation data; Phytosociology; Sub Saharan Africa; Sustainable management; Vegetation data; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; DATA MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; INCENTIVE; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; INVENTORY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PHYTOSOCIOLOGY; SUSTAINABILITY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 79960091226     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01271.x     Document Type: Article

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