Value over volume: The next ten years of Open Data

Ten years into the open data era, we have achieved something of genuine significance: we have won the argument. In 2016, “open academic data” still required evangelism. The hardest part was persuading colleagues that data sharing mattered at all. Today, that conversation has fundamentally shifted. The majority of researchers now accept that sharing data is valuable, and this matters enormously, for it means the debate has moved from ideology to operations. The challenge is no longer one of...