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In response to these trends, technical communities and publishers have developed and implemented Open Access journals and data archiving policies. Again, the field of biology appears to be leading the way on both these fronts. Perhaps the best example of this trend is Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, an Open Access journal dedicated to the discussion of digital data in biology.\cite{oxforddata} And in a recent development, Nature Publishing Group has announced the launch of a new open access journal, titled Scientific Data, which will be dedicated to publishing descriptions of scientific datasets and their acquisition.\cite{naturedata} It will initially focus on the life, biomedical and environmental science communities.  In order to begin a dialogue on material data, NIST convened a workshop on digital materials data in May of 2012 under the auspices of MGI. The workshop identified a number of barriers that needed to be addressed during creation of a data strategy for materials, they include: Materials schema/ontology; Data and metadata standards; Data repositories/archive; Data quality; Incentives for data sharing; Intellectual property; Tools for finding data.\cite{Warren_2012} Notable among these for this discussion are data repositories and incentives for data sharing. Other disciplines, notably evolutionary biology, have demonstrated peer-reviewed journals have the potential to contribute solutions to these barriers to data sharing. \cite{Whitlock_2010}