SciDataCon 2022: three takeaways from the State of Open Data 2021 panel discussion

"We were delighted to participate in SciDataCon 2022, the theme of which was Data to Improve our World. Figshare’s Founder and CEO Mark Hahnel led a panel discussion on the state of open data and how data sharing has been affected by the pandemic together with Natasha Simons (Associate Director, Data & Services, Australian Research Data Commons), Graham Smith (Research Data Manager, Springer Nature) and Prof Ginny Barbour (Co-Lead, Office for Scholarly Communications, Queensland University of Technology).  Below are three key takeaways from the panel discussion along with a link to the slides each panelist presented. Funders should be the most responsible for implementing change in data sharing policies... The challenge with data sharing is now quality, not quantity...   Researchers are trying to do the right thing when it comes to data sharing but there are systemic problems to overcome...."