Indeed. A huge push in my agency is to comply with the initiative to make research data publicly available (https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expandin

Indeed. A huge push in my agency is to comply with the initiative to make research data publicly available (https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-access-results-federally-funded-research https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-...). This isn't lip-service, we have strict local deadlines for getting data online. The hurdles are entirely technological, almost everyone who works here (scientists anyway) love the principle.