title: The intellectual property management for data sharing in a German liver cancer research network.
abstract: Sharing data in biomedical research networks has great potential benefits including efficient use of resources, avoiding duplicate experiments and promoting collaboration. However, concerns from data producers about difficulties of getting proper acknowledgement for their contributions are becoming obstacles for efficient and network wide data sharing in reality. Effective and convenient ways of intellectual property management and acknowledging contributions to the data producers are required. This paper analyzed the system requirements for intellectual property management in a German liver cancer research network and proposed solutions for facilitating acknowledgement of data contributors using informatics tools instead of pure policy level strategies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Germany. shan.he@med.uni-heidelberg.de
authors.forename: Shan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ganzinger
authors.forename: Petra
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Knaup
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005858:Germany; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D018973:Intellectual Property; D020407:Internet; D008113:Liver Neoplasms; D012106:Research / Q000458:organization & administration*