As sites are making government data more available, are they really making it more accessible? How do you feel about the current state of open data sites in making information easy to find? What are some of the ways that can be improved to make it easier to browse across both centralized repositories as well as distributed datasets and tools?
"Now a team of scientists is planning to scour museums and research institutes to draw up a global inventory of threatened data. Launched on 29 October, shortly after the biennial conference of the Committee on Data for Science and Technology in Stellenbosch, South Africa, the project aims to publish the inventory online in 2012." http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101102/full/468017a.html
Elizabeth Griffin's Mission to Hunt for Endangered Data
"Now a team of scientists is planning to scour museums and research institutes to draw up a global inventory of threatened data. Launched on 29 October, shortly after the biennial conference of the Committee on Data for Science and Technology in Stellenbosch, South Africa, the project aims to publish the inventory online in 2012."
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101102/full/468017a.html