In my opinion, a great way to indulge the human beings in the current issues, for example, climate change is through educating people, this is beautifully accomplished by databases such as open access. Open access is where you can have access to read and be informed about the current research outputs online, usually free of cost and with reduced copyrights. This doesn’t only allow, for mass education (and perhaps mass number of advocates) but also promotes editing of research articles, it allows data to be built on, added, modified, speculated and thus improved.
Metadata is data that gives us information about data, it is the data of data. The profound need for metadata comes from the fact that it makes connections, relations and show us variations among all data presented, providing us with an easier escape into appointing meaningful findings about data we want. Metadata encompasses many different disciplines and can be formed manually or through automated information processing. The difference between the two methods of creation is that automated metadata tends to be more elementary, having basic information. On the other hand, manually formed metadata is stronger in terms of accuracy because it ables us to modify relevant information thus limiting error.
Creative common license is a way that enables the public to use copyrighted work and modify it through building on it, using it or share it. This license is used by an author when he allows his work to be used under certain rules that different licenses provide. Some authors may allow only non-commercial uses or whatever license form that will protect their work but also provide the information to the public. This flexibility in choosing what license type an author gets to choose is established by the four license types CC offers.
Genetic and Epigenetic Understanding of the Seasonal Timing of Flowering is a peer-reviewed paper that can be accessed by the public through Plant Communication journal in Elsevier website.
Applied Plant Ecology Winter 2020 