Moving from data barriers to data stewardship gaps

CISTI has just announced the release of a publication prepared by the
Research Data Strategy Working Group addressing gaps in data stewardship.
The announcement is provided below and includes a link to the report.

This report is to some extent an update to the 1996 publication, "Data Policy and
Barriers to Data Access in Canada: Issues for Global Change Research," which i view as
the quintessential benchmark against which
data stewardship progress in Canada should be measured.

Table 2 on page 17 shows a lot of work remains and that progress has
been spotty since the 1996 report. However, one statement on this
page should catch the eyes of those associated with the DLI: "There
are considerable variations across disciplines, which contributes to
the complexity of these issues. The social sciences are ahead in
some areas because of the international data documentation standard
DDI, which has been embraced in Canada by the Data Liberation
Initiative."