Cambridge University Press would like to apologise for the following error in above article (Hauptmann, Reference Hauptmann2020).

The paragraph at the end of page 102 should have read:

The second example comes from long-time staff member Erik Austin’s recent account of the early years of ICPR. According to Austin, the prevailing attitude towards data sharing in the midtwentieth century was an unfavorable mix of hostility and incomprehension.

“Scientific data from all disciplines were jealously guarded by their developers/creators as private resources …’’