Who will use the open data? – The Spike – Medium

"Sharing data takes effort, sometimes extreme effort. Any substantial effort needs motivation. And the motivation for experimentalists to share their data is missing a key element: knowing who they are doing it for.

That missing element is data labs. Without supporting people to use the data, we have created a system that churns out endless new data, that rewards the production of new data, whether we need it or not. So here is a dream of future science, of a scientific landscape populated by data labs, using vast repositories of open data to tackle deep questions of how brains do what they do."