Emergent Data Community Spotlight | Ithaka S+R

"Encouraging scholars to share research data with one another promises to increase research efficiency, reproducibility, and innovation. In a recent issue brief, Danielle Cooper and I argued for a new conceptual framework for understanding and supporting research data sharing: data communities. Data communities are formal or informal groups of scholars who share a certain type of data with each other, regardless of disciplinary boundaries, and those who wish to support data sharing should work to identify and support emergent data communities – groups of scholars who are on their way to developing an active, sustainable data sharing culture.

But what is it really like to build a data community from the ground up? To find out, I decided to interview experts who are at the forefront of growing emergent data communities in a variety of research areas...."