[TaylorAlexander]

Is there some way to work this in to the system? Like by having a different person do this work? At a very high level, all of science would benefit from more data being properly formatted and published, so maybe this is something that could be budgeted for in the planning phase? Or the work could be done by undergraduates studying for the field?

[Fomite]

The amount for a non-modular (i.e. the default, you don't have to have a super detailed budget) NIH R01, which is the basic unit of biomedical science funding, has been stagnant since 1999.

Budgeting for a separate person to do this would eat up a tremendous amount of said budget.

Which is fine, except if we think about this from a productivity standpoint, the person who budgeted for that person is probably short a graduate student compared to the person who didn't, on the outside chance that someone cares about their stuff. For example, I looked at my lab's publicly available repositories linked to papers on Github.

Watches: 15 (probably half of these are people involved in the project) Forks: 3 Stars: 4 Visitors in the Past Month: 4

That's it. For all of them. While I keep doing it based on principle, if I stopped tomorrow, it would impact me not at all.

And undergraduates, candidly, are not usually time savers.