One of my recent blogposts (for INCF): Without funding for metadata standards, datasharing mandates will be ineffective
https://incf.org/blog/without-funding-metadata-standards-data-sharing-mandates-will-be-ineffective
Without funding for metadata standards, data-sharing mandates will be ineffective | INCF
Mark Alan Musen, professor of Biomedical Informatics and of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University points out in Nature that without appropriate metadata, shared data cannot be reused and data-sharing mandates will be pointless.