Timeline for Why are some academic research datasets not available to people who only have freely available email addresses?
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| Jan 6, 2017 at 12:51 | comment | added | Cape Code | @101010111100 care to turn that comment into an answer? | |
| Jan 6, 2017 at 5:19 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/817239107395010561 | ||
| Jan 6, 2017 at 1:00 | comment | added | daniel.heydebreck | @FranckDernoncourt Yes, that is a pitty. We had a research project with a non-academic partner and had a similar issue. I put my comment into an answer. | |
| Jan 6, 2017 at 0:58 | answer | added | daniel.heydebreck | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 6, 2017 at 0:46 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @daniel.neumann I see. I guess that's too bad for people willing to perform research without any commercial intent but not affiliated to any universities (e.g., high school students, retirees, hobbyists, etc.). But that'd answer my question, so you're welcome to convert your comment into an answer. | |
| Jan 6, 2017 at 0:23 | comment | added | daniel.heydebreck | @FranckDernoncourt it is a common concept for scientific databases: If you want to be sure only scientists (or scientists from a specific country) access the data. Some databases have a two step model: you can register with every email address but you cannot access all the data. Particularly for databases, which a large number of people want to access, this concept saves a lot of work for people hosting the database (otherwise they needed to control each new user). | |
| Jan 5, 2017 at 23:49 | comment | added | 101010111100 | I suppose it's easier to verify you are part of a certain organization by using an email address with a domain which belongs to that organization. It's relatively easy to impersonate people with freely available email addresses. In fact, many places these days require university or company email addresses, exactly for the above reason. | |
| Jan 5, 2017 at 23:31 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @101010111100 wouldn't having a research/educational use license be enough? | |
| Jan 5, 2017 at 23:29 | comment | added | 101010111100 | In the case of ImageNet, it seems the reason is to prevent commercial research/educational use, as ImageNet does not own the copyright of the images. | |
| Jan 5, 2017 at 22:59 | history | edited | Franck Dernoncourt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 5, 2017 at 22:53 | history | asked | Franck Dernoncourt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |