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If I have seen further,” Sir Isaac Newton wrote to Robert Hooke in 1676, “it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
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The phrase was, in fact, based on that of Bernard of Chartres five centuries earlier. (d. 1130): “We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more than they do, indeed farther…” ("Nous sommes des nains juchés sur des épaules de géant. Nous voyons ainsi davantage et plus loin qu'eux, non parce que notre vue est plus aigüe ou notre taille plus haute, mais parce qu'ils nous portent en l'air et nous élèvent de toute leur hauteur gigantesque."). Gimpel, J., 1961. The Cathedral Builders. Grove Press, New York.
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For example, the “Digital Millennium Copyright Act” (H.R. 2281), which updated the Copyright Act (Title 17 of the US Code) to include digital data; the “Public Domain Enhancement Act” (H.R. 2601); the “Public Access to Science Act” (H.R. 2613); the “Consumer Access to Information Act of 2004” (H.R. 3872); and the “Digital Media Consumers Rights Act of 2005” (H.R. 1201).
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Papale, D., Agarwal, D.A., Baldocchi, D., Cook, R.B., Fisher, J.B., van Ingen, C. (2012). Database Maintenance, Data Sharing Policy, Collaboration. In: Aubinet, M., Vesala, T., Papale, D. (eds) Eddy Covariance. Springer Atmospheric Sciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2351-1_17
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