Melissa Haendel envisions a sustainable data trust

Monarch Initiative co-PI Melissa Haendel is an outspoken advocate for all things open, such as open science, open data, and open source software. She works to build and promote sustainable and reusable data resources.

Last week, Melissa was invited to contribute an essay to the “NLM Musings from the Mezzanine” series from the Director of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Read Melissa’s discussion of data reusability and licensing here:
“Socio-legal Barriers to Data Reuse: Envisioning a sustainable data trust”.

In the 56 resources evaluated by the (Re)usable Data Project (RDP), 35 distinct licenses were observed, including large numbers of custom-restrictive and custom-permissive licenses.