Nature Publishes U of I Professor’s Correspondence on Open Data

Marshall Ma, associate professor of computer science, led an investigation through the Committee on Data of the International Science Council (ISC) last summer to discover the status of open data efforts across scientific unions of various disciplines.

The result shows a worrying situation. Among 41 ISC member unions and associations, only 25 have sub-organizations dedicated to open data, and just a few have developed machine-readable standards. The result was published as a correspondence to the Nature journal.