[Puneet Kishor]

No worries Enrique, take your time. Also, please note that I am not so much interested in knowing what these (simple vs open databases, web services, data-linked software, etc.) are but more interested in learning what this IG thinks they are and, even more importantly, why their legal interoperability is different and should be treated differently.
To me, data are “something” used by researchers and scientists irrespective of where they come from and how they are stored, managed and accessed. In a computing sense, they are a response to a query. What happens behind the scene to deliver that response is out of scope for this IG. All that matters is the legal interoperability (not semantic or technological or any other interoperability) of that data with other data. If we establish and promote that, in my view we’d have performed a very valuable service.
Many thanks.

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