Hey, You, Stop Hoarding that Data

From the Access to Knowledge Conference, Victoria Stodden blogs about a presentation by Sanger's Tim Hubbard. In the talk, he "laments that scientists tend to carry out their work in a closed way and thus very little data is released," she writes. In addition to concerns about maintaining privacy for research subjects and patients, he said another challenge is releasing data in a way that will let others use it. "Hubbard is touching on what might be the most important part of the Access to Knowledge movement - how to make the access meaningful without destroying incentives to be open," Stodden blogs.