There's a very interesting new report available from Danielle Cooper
and Rebecca Springer at Ithaka S+R today titled "Data Communities: A
New Model for Supporting STEM Data Sharing" which uses the concept of
data sharing communities to explore successful data sharing practices
and to underpin a strategy to promote greater sharing. Note that while
the examples are STEM based, I believe that the concepts are much more
broadly applicable and hence this paper should be of very wide interest.

The paper is available either to read online or as a PDF download at

https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/data-communities/

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI