What is clear, is that data are increasingly conceptualized as inherently valuable products of scientific research, rather than as components of the research process
Data is beginning to be seen as valuable rather than a left-hand component of the research process.
the vast majority of scientific data generated in the 20th century have only been accessed by small groups of experts; and few of those data, selected in relation to the inferences made, have been made publicly available in scientific journal
The vast majority of data is accessed only by the investigators