Re: FOSS model in other fields/contexts

I maintain a list of open content projects, and projects that try to apply
the FLOSS-concept into other areas then software.
see my links-directory for more projects.
http://www.opencursus.org/



ravi srinivas wrote:
> I am visting scholar at Law School,Indiana
> University,Bloomington,researching on Biodiversity and Intellectual
> Property Rights.I am interested in knowing more about the use of open
> source/free software models, in fields,other than, software
> development,particularly in biotechnology/genomics/bioinformatics etc.<BR>
> I have written about a biolinux model in a different context.


If you are not looking for software, 
then what are you looking for?

Free journals:
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/
http://www.plos.org
http://www.biomedcentral.com/


Databases and Facts:

http://www.drugref.org/
drugref.org is a collaborative attempt at creating and maintaining an
independent free pharmaceutical reference database. 


Antweb 
http://www.antweb.org/index.jsp
(Creative Commons BY-SA-NC)
AntWeb provides tools for exploring the diversity and identification of ants
(Hymenoptera: Formicidae). These tools have been developed to facilitate
the use of ants in inventory and monitoring programs and provide ant
taxonomists with images of types. 


All Species Foundation
http://www.all-species.org/
The ALL Species Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the
complete inventory of all species of life on Earth within the next 25 years
- a human generation.


The Human Genome Project itself can be regarded as an open source model,
just as the recent SARS-research.



Education Textbooks:

Rice Connexions, MIT OpenCourseWare, open-education.org
wikibooks.org, librecourse.org, educommons.org, ...



Collaboration models:

http://www.open-research.org/
In recent years we have witnessed the incredibly productive power of
"open-source" programming where independent software developers freely
share their source code and collaborate globally over the Internet. While
components of the Internet (e.g., email, FTP, etc.) have long been used as
mechanisms for research collaboration, it has only been recently ? since
the development of the web ? that the Internet as a system for research
collaboration has been available to non-technical users. Even so, the free
exchange of research data and products, similar to the open-source sharing
of programs is still quite limited...."

http://www.openknowledge.net/

http://bioinformatics.org/


Open Source Ecology
http://sourceopen.org/



Greets,
Wouter Vanden Hove