EDIT - European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy -

- MoU on Cooperation between the libraries of EDIT partner institutions (ViTAL)

Signed by 13 institutions (CSIC, UvA, NHN, BGBM, NHML, RBINS, RMCA, NGBG, HNHM, CUB, IBSAS, MO, RBGE)

- MoU on Names & Classification Services(GNOMA)

Signed by 16 institutions (MNHN, UKBH, CSIC, UvA, NHN, NNM, NHML, SMNS, RBINS, RMCA, NGBG, HNHM, CUB, IBSAS, RBGE, MfN)

- MoU on Gender Issues

Signed by 6 institutions (UKBH, NNM, CBS, RBINS, RMCA, CUB)

- MoU on EDIT principles for Reseach Loans between Natural History Collections

Signed by 12 institutions (MNHN, UKBH, CSIC, NAturalis, BGBM, NHML, SMNS, RBINS, RMCA, MO, RBGE, MfN)

- MoU on Data transfer standard for collection unit data (ABCD)

Signed by 16 institutions (MNHN, UKBH, UvA, NHN, NNM, CBS, BGBM, NHML, SMNS, RBINS, RMCA, HNHM, CUB, IBSAS, RBGE, MfN)

- MoU on content management system for websites with taxonomic data (Drupal)

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Current comment:

Comments by 13-RBINS on behalf of the General Director Camille Pisani.
Eric De Weer (EDW), Thierry Backeljau (TB) & Isa Van de Velde (IVDV)
Submitted to NO on 21/06/2008.

General remark: given that at the time of reading the IP document, EDW and TB did not have all the relevant background on some parts of the IP document, certain remarks may be superfluous.

Comments:

General:
Is it clear in this IP document what is meant by “non-commercial purposes”? We feel that this term needs a clear definition. The same applies to terms such as “fair and non-discriminatory market conditions”, “taxonomic data”, “Open Source License Agreements”,...

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