There’s a very interesting new report available from Danielle Cooper and Rebecca Springer at Ithaka S+R today titled “Data Communities: A New Model for Supporting STEM Data Sharing” which uses the concept of data sharing communities to explore successful data sharing practices and to underpin a strategy to promote greater sharing. Note that while the examples are STEM based, I believe that the concepts are much more broadly applicable and hence this paper should be of very wide interest.
The paper is available either to read online or as a PDF download at
https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/data-communities/
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI