Letting Data Speak to Data

The science journal Nature today contains an editorial calling for scientists to "embrace a culture of sharing and rethink their vision of databases." Leveraging the shift to "Web services," Nature calls for scientists to make their research available to other scientists. I've been talking with clients for years about the concept of "content syndication" which is just recently coming to fruition across many industries with Web services, RSS feeds, wikis, and other technology (and still remains a ways off in the asset management world). This idea of sharing content is very exciting (for the future of science, the asset management world, and communication in general).