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There is also the idea (going back to Francis Bacon) that giving a large community access to data will lead to the reflexive/self-critical approach necessary for improving science; we could make a big leap with "big data" From: The Forum for Information Standards in Heritage (FISH) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of LEE, Edmund On size, the point is that the larger the community of those sharing knowledge, the more likely it is that there will be two or more people who can effectively share a piece of knowledge [this is akin to 'Metcalfe's Law' - the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number in the network].