While the benefits of FAIR principles — findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable — and Open Data seem clear to most scientists, significant hurdles need to be overcome to make scientific databases useful and sustainable. The difficulties with incentivizing the community to share data, as encountered by the recently launched Open Membrane Database (OMD), can be used as a starting point to fuel the debate on the power and pitfalls of FAIR and Open Data practices.
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Verbeke, R. FAIR and Open Data requires proper incentives and a shift in academic culture. Nat Water 1, 7–9 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-022-00012-1
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