Big quote here, but I couldn't bear to cut it:
“One of One Mind’s open science principles involves adhering to widely accepted data standards. This makes sense because the standards help make the data useful. Sharing the data is not the end game. Using the data to accelerate the development of safe and effective treatments is what we’re after. Sharing data that cannot easily be interpreted or understood limits the value of the data. At the very least, it adds significantly to the cost and time needed to interpret and transform the data to make it useful. Using data standards adds to the value of the data in a measurable way, and promotes the positive effects targeted by data sharing and open science.”
I love the way blogger “shume” (modest, anonymous guy) puts the logic of standards together. “Sharing data” has become a shorthand for the benefits of data standards, but he rightly reminds us what the point of sharing is. We must always bring the discussion back to business benefit. In this case, shume is talking about data in the clinical research setting. But his comments apply to us all. Data Sharing
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