How to share, or not share, this is the question.

There are millions of scientific datasets around the world – they are all important, they document a small portion of our reality –past or present. However, can you imagine the power of looking at them all together? The type of questions that we could answer! The last decade has marked a change in the scientific culture from individual owned data to open access, collaboration, and synthesis. However, putting together datasets from different origins comes with its own set of difficulties – here we will talk about some strategies to overcome them.