I am not a programmer, however, the language of this post sounds rational. I think my gut is reacting to what I often hear, "well just give us the data, it is easy to get it out"! Often I hear that from people who are not working in institutions, or in institutions who are really dealing with big data sets. It is an unthoughtful response to all problems - lets just build something new!
The blog post is short and refers to
data.gov and genomics databanks.
http://dataspora.com/blog/xml-and-big-data/
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