In reviewing a report from the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN), Dr Mike Osborne explains why it’s never been so important to understand and manage your data.
Data is fundamental, and how we organise, store, manage and maintain it has a direct impact on how we go about our day-to- day lives and how businesses function. We are constantly creating, storing and sharing data even when we don’t even realise that we are doing it, and often this data exists in ‘silos’. As such, it is compartmentalised into independent repositories, either within departments or applications that cannot or do not enable data sharing.
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