Myron Gutmann
Director, Institute of Behavioral Science
University of Colorado Boulder
Jeremy York
Project Manager
University of Colorado Boulder
Interest in research data to facilitate discovery, drive innovation, and promote trust in science and scholarship is well established. However, we know little about the total amounts, characteristics, and sustainability of data that could be used for these purposes. This briefing will present initial results of the Stewardship Gap Project. The goal of the project is to investigate and characterize, if it exists, the gap between the amount of valuable data that is being produced through sponsored projects in the United States and the amount that is being effectively stewarded and made accessible. Initial results pertain to a set of in-depth interviews conducted in Fall 2015 with researchers in a broad variety of fields.
The Stewardship Gap is led by Myron Gutmann, University of Colorado Boulder and Francine Berman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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Presentation (PDF)