Open Data Survey 2017
Digital Science's Jon Treadway and Briony Fane said there were strong signals that open data is becoming more embedded; the trends are positive:- Respondents have become more aware of open data sets (82 per cent up from 73 per cent) than in 2016. Age does not appear to be a major factor in this trend - younger researchers (25-34 year olds) showing no larger increase (75 per cent to 85 per cent) when compared with older age groups, notably 55-64 year olds (up from 70 per cent to 80 per cent).
- Willingness of researchers to reuse open data sets in their own research has grown by a similar amount, a 10 per cent increase to 80 per cent, with the increase again replicated across age groups.
- Those researchers who routinely share their data (either frequently or sometimes) has also grown since 2016, although by a smaller amount, from 57 per cent to 60 per cent. The proportion of researchers who have never made a data set openly available has reduced from 24 per cent to 21 per cent (see figure above). Some 70 per cent of these researchers are now willing to reuse open data sets in their own research.
- More researchers are curating their data for sharing – an increase from 67 per cent in 2016 to 74 per cent in 2017.
- Some 29 per cent of respondents who frequently share data do not know where funds to action this were coming from – a result consistent between 2016 & 2017, but positively those who share data less regularly saw a reduction from 43 per cent to 38 per cent. Those who are not aware of data sets are also more likely to know who would pay for it, down from 54 per cent to 46 per cent.
Full Data from 2017 survey is available @ https://ndownloader.figshare.com/articles/5480710/versions/2
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