MDC blog Cross-Post: The Road to Open Science Requires Making Data Count Better

"New reports tracking the benefits of Open Science practices such as data sharing have presented inconsistent results, but better scholarly metrics for data and more systematic analysis will make the outcomes and benefits of Open Science clearer. As a metadata nerd and wearing my hat as a Make Data County Advisory Group Member I vented my thoughts and motivations on the topic of scholarly metadata in a post that I published last week in the Make Data Count blog, and for wider exposure I thought would also be useful to share here. Make Data Count being an initiative that promotes the development of open data metrics to enable evaluation of data usage."