@SarahDavidson raised the same point about responsibility in topic 6.
Instead of focusing on “responsibility” (which always will be loaded with political, social, and governance issues), should we shift our focus on “interoperability”?
The idea here is inspired by Cory Doctorow’s and others writing on “Adversarial Interoperability” – “Adversarial interoperability is the technical term for a tool or service that works with ((“interoperates” with) an existing tool or service—without permission from the existing tool’s maker (that’s the “adversarial” part).” I think Bionomia is a good example of this.
If anyone wants to build an army of bots to trawl links they can use the open protocol. A DES infrastructure does not necessarily need to provide all the services – it can provide the protocol and interoperable layers that can help others to build the tools (for example, a service to deal with data quality issues).
An also in agreement, that we do need to be considerate of not creating another layer of data management and other organisation challenges. However, certain level of cultural and organisational changes are needed along with the new technical implementations.