So much talk about data, but no funder wants to support databases.
FlyBase is in trouble, yet a key reference in biology research.
Raising funds to support curating connectome datasets, including their large, nanometer-resolution volumes, is hard. Yet then evaluators point out that we aren't doing enough to make it easy to access – yet with what funds?
And likewise for every scientific dataset ... either there is an internally funded institute behind it (and even then) or it is hell.
Everyone wants new data, but nobody seems to pay attention to the need for old data to support the generation and interpretation of new data!
