The issue focused on the use of data for storage purposes as of the end of March 2011. The report does not say when it began, and it does not indicate the number of scientists whose data is being stored or the type of data being stored.


In June 2011 the Global Data Science Institute launched a data governance project to make data in the public domain more useful for researchers, using the example of climate change research. A press release from the institute described how it will be used to access and process research