Shared data and infrastructure support science
Sounds straightforward, and many assume it is. Unfortunately for science, the risks and benefits of sharing data aren’t equally distributed, and that impacts who participates and what data actually gets shared. My work examines approaches for governing shared scientific resources through empirically examining the production and use of data.
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In 1968, a microbiologist named Garrett Hardin wrote an essay about population control that mentions shared resource governance. It has been cited over 40,000 times, including critiques and empirical challenges, and continues to inform resource management policy and scholarship to this day. What is it about this work that gives it enduring relevance? I talk to scholars and practitioners who cite Hardin to learn more.