Data is the new gold. Les données permettent de valider les résultats de la recherche et d’objectiver la prise de décision stratégique en entreprise. La gestion des données est ainsi devenue un enjeu majeur.
Comment appliquer les principes FAIR à l’université, en entreprise, dans un institut de recherche ?

ABD-BVD : Inforum 2022 – It’s all about data
KBR – salle Auditorium – 28 Mont des Arts Entrée Gutenberg 1000 Bruxelles
22/11/2022 – 9:00-17:00
https://www.abd-bvd.be/fr/agenda/inforum-2022/

@bernardrentier when you say "new", you're referring to the past 80 years right?

@skanman During the 80 previous rears, data has been the hidden gold.

@bernardrentier
I see your point but let's pretend there's only 2 houses in the world and a very large wall separating them. A red house contains all the people who value products and the blue house contains all the people who value making products. While the vast majority of the population live in the red house, the people in the blue house continue to build the wall separating them larger. Why would they do that? The people in the blue house are in control of the people in the red house. But without the red house, the people in the blue house serve no purpose. If the people in the red house are exposed to the blue house, they will deplete the ability of the blue house to supply them with product. If the wall is too big, you get over production and values are destroyed. If the wall is too small, you get under production and the value is too high.
The caveat: both houses value certain types of data, but not each others data. But as time goes on, both houses change the value of products they use.

The result of this is highly entertaining to watch. As time goes by both houses change their color in alternation. But neither house is aware of the condition of the color of it's opposing house because of the wall.

This creates a value of disparity in raw data.

Simplified Example:
You build cars.
You eat food.
You value metallurgy, physics, engineering, the more you know, the more you eat.
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I grow food.
I drive cars.
I value meteorology, agriculture, chemistry, the more I know, the nicer car I drive.

But more people cook food than build cars.
So food is cheaper than cars. People are comfortable with this balance.

Both collect raw data in their job to make their job process more efficient. But here's the catch, once they both have used the raw data to improve efficiency. The efficiency holds the value and the data is no longer necessary. Why isn't the data shared between the both you and I?
Simple answer:

I don't want you building cars AND growing food, makes your value higher than mine.
You don't want me growing food AND building car, makes my value higher than yours.

So we protect the data that's important to us. Then once we've used it, we destroy it or hide it because of competition. We build walls between our houses.

One day, a new guy builds another house. But he doesn't grow food or build cars.
He builds signs.
Drives cars.
Eats food.

He is more expensive because he can choose to help you or me become more competitive than the other. You and I both need him. You and I both pay him. But you pay him more and I pay him less. But he makes more than you and I combined. Now you and I want to do what he does. We could if we had each others data, but we will never share it because of competition. But the new guy uses tools to gather the data anyway.

See, the data was always gold.
We always knew the data was gold.
We have always been so selfish with it.
Because we're so greedy, now you and I want to be Google. The sexy guy with all the data.

There's a dangerous reality though.
If we don't eat we die.
If we don't drive, were ok.
If we stop paying Google, nothing changes.

One day the data will be worthless cause everyone will realize we have always had it. The machines will build the machines. But that food.. who owns more farmland than anyone else? Oh yeah.. Bill gates 😂

I love this planet.. it's so entertaining watching everyone rushing around competing with each other 😁

Happy Friday my friend, I wish you good food, healthy family, and all the data in the world.

@skanman Great ! I agree of course.
However I was not talking about data in general, but about publicly funded research data, which should be commons.