Creative Commons was created to with music, blogs, pictures, films, and other such cultural media in mind. However, in 2005 they added a new focus by launching Science Commons.
This arm of the Creative Commons concept has been lowering the barriers that exist for those conducting scientific research and data mining.
Their website lists three primary building blocks of their plan to improve scientific discovery:
- Making scientific research “re-useful” — We help people and organizations open and mark their research and data for reuse. We are also exploring new models for licensing patents and know how.
- Enabling “one-click” access to research materials — We help streamline the materials-transfer process so researchers can easily replicate, verify and extend research.
- Integrating fragmented information sources — We help researchers find, analyze and use data from disparate sources by marking and integrating the information with a common, computer-readable language.
A way this project can ultimately benefit us is by speeding the time it takes to go from identifying a gene to developing a drug to fight the related disease – currently 17 years, but potentially much shorter.
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