Great Quote on Open Data

Gina Kolata, Rare Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s. New York Times, 12-August-2010.

“It was unbelievable,” said Dr. John Q. Trojanowski, an Alzheimer’s researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. “It’s not science the way most of us have practiced it in our careers. But we all realized that we would never get biomarkers unless all of us parked our egos and intellectual-property noses outside the door and agreed that all of our data would be public immediately.”

gml: Big everything here, including institutions (federal government, pharmaceutical corporations, and universities), data (3200 downloads of the “massive” data set), and science. Nice to see, although the skeptic in me has doubts.