Wired on open data

There are some islands of innovation.  Since 2002, the Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine has offered a peer-reviewed home to results that go negative or against the grain.  Earlier this year, the journal Nature started Nature Precedings, a Web-based forum for prepublication research and unpublished manuscripts in biomedicine, chemistry, and the earth sciences.  At Drexel University, chemist Jean-Claude Bradley practices "open notebook" science--chronicling his lab's work and sharing data via blog and wiki.  And PLoS is planning an open repository for research and data that is otherwise abandoned.

Wired - 15.10 - Mind the Gaps - by Thomas Goetz - October 2007 - pp 31-32 - not yet online UPDATE 2007-09-25: Now available.  ENDUPDATE

The article gives a good overview of the issues related to open data and the current "dark data" situation, with a particular focus on the aspect that (for the most part) only positive results and successful experiments make it into the research literature.