What are the best ways to organize the mass quantities of data that researchers generate, and to share those data to engender new research? Scott Carlson, a senior reporter at "The Chronicle", asked Michael C. Witt, an assistant professor of library science and an interdisciplinary research librarian at Purdue University Libraries and its Distributed Data Curation Center, and Sayeed Choudhury, associate dean of university libraries and director of the Digital Knowledge Center at the Sheridan Libraries of the Johns Hopkins University, for their views. Excerpts from this interview are presented.