Data librarianship – a gap in the market
(source: CILIP, Grande-Bretagne)

"The policy and technology environment is complex. There is new emphasis in the HE community on ‘stewardship of knowledge assets of all types’. There are new technologies for doing e-research. The research councils have policies and mandates for the recipients of research funding. There is also much talk of open access and open data. So why has progress on sharing data been so slow?
A primary reason is that although there always has been some sharing between a few collaborators, usually through informal networks, on the whole, academics are cautious about placing their data in the public domain.
And there are many other issues, to do with formats, standards, metadata, politics and policy, including how national data archives should complement institutional repositories, and whether you need one or two archives for each set, one for ongoing collaboration, one for the ‘finished’ outcome."

Via JISC