Open data: growing pains | Research Information
peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-01-16
Summary:
"In its latest State of Open Data survey, Figshare revealed that a hefty 64 per cent of respondents made their data openly available in 2018.
The percentage, up four per cent from last year and seven per cent from 2016, indicates a healthy awareness of open data and for Daniel Hook, chief executive of Figshare’s parent company, Digital Science, it spells good news....
For example, the majority of respondents – 63 per cent – support national mandates for open data, an eight per cent rise from 2017. And, at the same time, nearly half of the respondents – 46 per cent – reckon data citations motivate them to make data openly available. This figure is up seven per cent from last year....
Yet, amid the data-sharing success stories, myriad worries remain. Top of the pile is the potential for data misuse....
Inappropriate sharing of data is another key concern....
Results indicated that a mighty 58 per cent of respondents felt they do not receive sufficient credit for sharing data, while only nine per cent felt they do....
Coko recently won funding from the Sloan Foundation to build DataSeer, an online service that will use Natural Language Processing to identify datasets that are associated with a particular article. ..."