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by sien 1870 days ago
The FAIR data idea is intended to help with this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAIR_data

It's a good idea. People are trying to do it. But it's work for someone and often that work isn't directly appreciated.

Having a start of don't waste the data in someone's filing cabinet or on a personal hard disk is a the biggest step.

The Australian Government also has https://data.gov.au/

Now the organisations that provide all that data just have to figure a good way to quantitively show the value in a realistic manner.

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UK: http://data.gov.uk

They also have a COVID-19 dataset with a full developers guide: http://coronavirus.data.gov.uk