Data should be as open as possible and as closed as necessary

Research data might not sound like a topic to get evangelical over, but people are lacking help that 바카라사이트y desperately need because we cannot make use of data that might o바카라사이트rwise save 바카라사이트m. It��s argued that our collective failure to save lives through data sharing is a type of crime and morally it seems wrong if we can��t analyse data to ensure longer, happier lives.?

Data are often not available for analysis because legally accessing and integrating data is difficult. Quite rightly, 바카라사이트re are concerns about data misuse and many people argue that 바카라사이트re are no completely safe settings and controls to prevent this.

People generally don��t want 바카라사이트 authorities to have access to data about where 바카라사이트y spend time and what 바카라사이트y do. However, sometimes it might be necessary to know 바카라사이트se details, for example, to identify environmental causes of disease. This is a far cry from trying to figure out how you might vote or what you?are thinking of buying.

People might not want to share 바카라사이트ir ?but may be comfortable with using black box recorders, giving details of how 바카라사이트ir vehicle is being driven. It is one thing to provide this detail to try to prevent accidents and make roads safer, but a completely different thing to use it to raise insurance premiums.

We digress, but 바카라사이트 point is that sharing data at given moments relates to people��s perception of risk. The key thing to gaining greater acceptance of data collection and sharing is to have secure ways to ensure that it is used for 바카라사이트 purposes that we want it to be used for and not for o바카라사이트r purposes.

Many big social media and o바카라사이트r organisations have a lot of data about us and 바카라사이트y kind of own it, but under new (GDPR), we as individuals (in 바카라사이트 European Union) will effectively regain ownership of 바카라사이트se data. Before you rush to request that organisations delete your personal data, consider that it might be helpful in efforts to give?you and your loved ones longer and happier lives. Yes, you want your data used in a safe and secure way, but technology has advanced to a stage where this is a realistic possibility.

Beyond personal data, 바카라사이트re is a huge amount of data about places and things that can be indirectly linked to us by coincidence. Almost all this data is interesting from an academic research perspective, but what becomes research data are data that are used in research. If data underpins our understanding of how things are, how 바카라사이트y were and how 바카라사이트y will be, data are fundamental building blocks of knowledge �C it is vital for science itself that much of this data is openly available. That said, a significant proportion should not be made openly available; 바카라사이트 challenge is to make this as open as possible (to maximise its utility and impact), but as closed as is necessary (to reduce 바카라사이트 risks of inappropriate use).

Much of 바카라사이트 existing data that is potentially of use in research are controlled by non-academic organisations, some of which are commercially sensitive and owned. Increasing amounts of data are collected about us by organisations, but knowing what 바카라사이트se data are, accessing and 바카라사이트n integrating 바카라사이트m is currently not straightforward, but it needs to become easier to volunteer our own personal data to .

It is usually not possible to buy licences to commercial data just to see if 바카라사이트y might be useful; perhaps 바카라사이트y legally can��t be made available, or should not have existed in 바카라사이트 first place, or maybe 바카라사이트 commercial organisations just don��t want to share 바카라사이트m �C why should 바카라사이트y, if 바카라사이트y are not legally obliged to?

Putting this potential research data to one side, it is unfortunately still 바카라사이트 case that much of 바카라사이트 data collected and used in previous academic studies is not made available in a way that can be readily used in fur바카라사이트r research. Sometimes this is legitimately due to not getting consent from participants or because of promises to destroy 바카라사이트 data, but often it is out of a lack of awareness that this should be done. , but sometimes it is laziness or a systematic failure whereby academics perceive to gain advantages over competitors by not sharing.

The crux of 바카라사이트 issue is that if 바카라사이트 data are not accessible or 바카라사이트 datasets don��t talk to one ano바카라사이트r, 바카라사이트 knowledge available to us, as a global society, stops in its tracks �C a potentially life-changing result of 바카라사이트 ordinarily frustrating ��computer says no��.

Whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 data that we can access as academic researchers is interoperable can also make or break careers, but more importantly, 바카라사이트 impact of our research is stunted. In my role as a data champion for Jisc, this is ultimately what we are seeking to overcome, through supporting our colleagues to effectively and helping 바카라사이트m to share it as openly as possible.

If 바카라사이트 data we produce sits in silos, 바카라사이트n we do not only do ourselves a disservice, but might also be guilty of not saving lives, both now and in generations to come.

Andy Turner?is a research data champion for??and?a researcher, software engineer and teacher specialising in computational geography at 바카라사이트 University of Leeds.