"Institutions have access to both academic administrative and research data sets but often lack a centralized repository for all that information," reports this article, suggesting that "with more data about things like faculty members' research focus areas, funding patterns and higher ed policy trends, they could make more strategic hiring decisions." Maybe they could, but I cannot begin to say how bad an idea this is. The airtight security required to manage budget, funding and personnel records would stifle any reasonable research infrastructure, while consolidating all data into a single repositories means greatly increasing the number of people who need to access it, and therefore, the sources of possible threats.
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