Science at Creative Commons

Overview
The Science Commons, an offshoot of the Creative Commons, is dedicated to addressing the barriers to sharing information in scientific contexts.

One Science Commons project is dedicated to tackling the barriers of technical standards, copyright and institutional rules that prevent different databases from sharing their information. This is particularly important in the life sciences where innovation is being stymied by an inability to mix different data sets.

Source

 * The Promise and Peril of Big Data, at 30.