Sharing is caring, but should it count?

Interesting blog post about incentives to share data.  The author concludes:

"...there’s a big perception gap on the importance of ‘my data to my research’, and the importance of ‘my data to someone else’s research’. Closing this gap could go a long way to increasing data sharing. [Also]...the tenure and promotion system is a complicated, political mechanism and trying to leverage it as a way to incentivize data sharing is not easy or straightforward"

http://datapub.cdlib.org/2014/07/23/sharing-is-caring-but-should-it-count/