Data mobility is a huge problem in the sciences and medical field. For years, companies have been leeching off researchers by trapping them into their proprietary data types which forces them to purchase expensive software licences and prevents sharing due to the need for again, expensive software
This is why open source and open data is important
Can you elaborate on this? I was working on few expensive, proprietary software for the apnea & ECG analysis and they had rather simple method for exporting to the EDF format.
This is why open source and open data is important