Central to the aims of the Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) project is an examination of the research-data landscape since the release of the Holdren public-access memo in 2013. The 2013 mandate, while requiring public access to federally funded research data, created direct and indirect infrastructure costs to academic institutions and researchers. Six months into the project, the RADS project team has examined costing frameworks to better understand the activities and services needed to make research data publicly accessible. The team has also extensively examined metadata quality at the projects’ six participating institutions to assess research data FAIRness (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability), a useful indicator of data access and reusability.
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area.
He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit.
Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
