研究问题：在学界倡导开放数据的重要性

结论：

I am delighted to introduce The State of Open Data report. As a long time advocate for open data I have always regarded the participation of the research sector as fundamentally important.The real prize for society is

not simply producing open data but facilitating open innovation. Open data enables a situation where the collective genius of thousands of researchers produces insights and analyses, inventions and understanding beyond what isolated individuals with their silos of data could produce.We need look no further than the success of the human genome, released as open data for all, to understand how innovation can flourish around open research output. Open innovation needs open data, open standards, open licences and open participation to really flourish.

We all have our favourite examples of the power of open data and this report provides more from which to choose. However, it is important to understand how the research community views the opportunities and challenges of open data.This report highlights the extent of awareness around open data, the incentives around its use and the perspectives that researchers have about making their own research data open. We must appreciate that researchers do need time to reflect on their results, to determine if they are at all reliable and to be able to extract the value in the data they have laboured hard to produce. We must also have consistent policies that determine how data is to be made openly available if it is funded by the public purse and if there are no significant issues that ought to preclude its release.

If we are to really change custom, practice and culture in the research sector we do have to recognize that we need incentives as well as mandates. Increasingly, data is deposited along with the textual narrative of the research. Increasingly, that data is referenced, acknowledged and cited. Increasingly, data is the principal resource that drives aspects of the research agenda.The very availability of some data makes certain investigations possible at all.

The call for governments and business, public and private organizations to open up data has been a refrain for some years. League tables of the comparative performance of countries are now available. However, we should not assume that doing well in these exercises means that the arguments have been won.

It is essential that we highlight the benefits of open data policy. It is important that we understand the best way to promote and incentivise the production and consumption of open data. It is crucial that consistent policy is developed between research funders and where possible jurisdictions. It is vital that best practice is shared and that the data on open data made widely available. I therefore welcome this report and commend it to you.

建议：

I am delighted to introduce The State of Open Data report. As a long time advocate for open data I have always regarded the participation of the research sector as fundamentally important.The real prize for society is

not simply producing open data but facilitating open innovation. Open data enables a situation where the collective genius of thousands of researchers produces insights and analyses, inventions and understanding beyond what isolated individuals with their silos of data could produce.We need look no further than the success of the human genome, released as open data for all, to understand how innovation can flourish around open research output. Open innovation needs open data, open standards, open licences and open participation to really flourish.

We all have our favourite examples of the power of open data and this report provides more from which to choose. However, it is important to understand how the research community views the opportunities and challenges of open data.This report highlights the extent of awareness around open data, the incentives around its use and the perspectives that researchers have about making their own research data open. We must appreciate that researchers do need time to reflect on their results, to determine if they are at all reliable and to be able to extract the value in the data they have laboured hard to produce. We must also have consistent policies that determine how data is to be made openly available if it is funded by the public purse and if there are no significant issues that ought to preclude its release.

If we are to really change custom, practice and culture in the research sector we do have to recognize that we need incentives as well as mandates. Increasingly, data is deposited along with the textual narrative of the research. Increasingly, that data is referenced, acknowledged and cited. Increasingly, data is the principal resource that drives aspects of the research agenda.The very availability of some data makes certain investigations possible at all.

The call for governments and business, public and private organizations to open up data has been a refrain for some years. League tables of the comparative performance of countries are now available. However, we should not assume that doing well in these exercises means that the arguments have been won.

It is essential that we highlight the benefits of open data policy. It is important that we understand the best way to promote and incentivise the production and consumption of open data. It is crucial that consistent policy is developed between research funders and where possible jurisdictions. It is vital that best practice is shared and that the data on open data made widely available. I therefore welcome this report and commend it to you.