Data manager's lament... the saga continues

What about good examples? “So far, there is no good example to pass around that has all the elements which are probably needed and in the right places, but I have been working on a partial set of my own,” Cheeseman/I claimed. “Of course, it is only a model if your data can be put in straightforward tables, like spreadsheets. For images, or systematic data bases, or perhaps for the network models, more work will be needed.”
    How do we get copies of this? “I will send them to you personally,” I said. “I could put them on the server and you could get them, but you won’t. I will be more intrusive than that. I will be contacting each of you and asking for at least one example of a typical data file from your work. We can start from there, together.”
    And one last thing, the NAS has suggested that projects like ours allocate 20% of the budget to data management. If we have allocated any, it has no been made available to me. Your cooperation in this important and exciting part of the project is really needed.