Contracts for Data Collaboration (C4DC)
- Sub-categories
- Informational Resource\ Metadata\ Ontologies\
- Started
- 2019
- Founded by
- GovLab at NYU, UN SDSN Thematic Research Network on Data and Statistics (TReNDS), University of Washington and the World Economic Forum
- Current URL
- https://contractsfordatacollaboration.org/
- Goals
- Inform and guide those seeking to establish a data collaborative by developing and making available a shared repository of contractual clauses (taken from existing data sharing agreements) that covers a host of issues, including - the provenance, quality and purpose of data; security and privacy concerns; roles and responsibilities of participants; access provisions, and use limitations; governance mechanisms; and other contextual mechanisms (TheGovLab.org, 2019).
- Status
- Active
Datasets Licensing Project
- Sub-categories
- Licensing\ Metadata\ Ontologies\
- Started
- 2017
- Founded by
- Jisc, The University of Glasgow, and CREATe
- Current URL
- https://datasetlicencing.wordpress.com/
- Goals
- Provide licensing support and guidance for data creators and users (Jisc, CREATe, & The University of Glasgow, 2017). Use insights gained from the Datasets Licensing Project to inform future efforts for the Jisc Research Data Shared Service (Jisc, 2018).
The Dataverse Project
- Sub-categories
- Licensing\ Metadata\ Rights\
- Started
- 2007
- Founded by
- Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS)
- Current URL
- http://dataverse.org
- Goals
- Facilitate the public distribution of persistent, authorized, and verifiable data, with powerful but easy-to-use technology, even when the data are confidential or proprietary (Gary King, 2007).
DCC’s How to License Research Data
- Sub-categories
- Information Resource\ Licensing\ Metadata\ Ontologies\
- Started
- 2014
- Founded by
- Digital Curation Centre
- Current URL
- http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides/license-research-data
- Goals
- Develop a guide for licensing research data, including information on why to license research data, licensing concepts, prepared licenses, bespoke licenses, standard licenses, multiple licensing, mechanisms for licensing data, and licensing-related information (Ball, 2014).
FAIRsharing.org
- Sub-categories
- Informational Resource\ Metadata\ Ontologies\
- Started
- 2009
- Founded by
- University of Oxford and the Oxford e-Research Centre
- Current URL
- https://fairsharing.org/
- Goals
- Provide a comprehensive information resource to guide researchers toward increasing data sharing and supporting reproducible research through providing recommendations, collections, and educational resources about data sharing policies, standards, and databases.
The Federal Demonstration Partnership - Data Transfer and Use Agreement Pilot
- Sub-categories
- Informational Resource\ Licensing\
- Started
- 2017
- Founded by
- The Federal Demonstration Partnership
- Current URL
- http://thefdp.org/default/committees/research-compliance/data-stewardship
- Goals
- The broad goal of the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP), a cooperative effort among 10 United States federal agencies and 154 institutional federal funding recipients, is to mitigate administrative loads related to research grants and contracts (The Federal Demonstration Partnership, 2018). As it relates to data stewardship, the FDP has conducted a Data Transfer and Use Agreement pilot towards the creation of data transfer and use agreement templates (The Federal Demonstration Partnership, 2018). These templates were developed to reduce the complex and time-consuming process of crafting individualized data transfer and use agreements for each research collaboration.
Research Data Alliance
- Sub-categories
- Rights\ Licensing\ Metadata\ Ontologies\
- Started
- 2013
- Founded by
- European Commission, the US National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Australian Government’s Department of Innovation (The Research Data Alliance, 2017).
- Current URL
- https://www.rd-alliance.org/
- Goals
- Facilitate data re-use through the development of interest groups and working groups that collaborate to develop outputs such as policies, recommendations, standards, codes, and best practices (Research Data Alliance, 2017c).
The (Re)usable Data Project
- Sub-categories
- Informational Resource\ Licensing\
- Started
- 2017
- Founded by
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) Biomedical Data Translator and the Monarch Initiative (The Reusable Data Project, 2017).
- Current URL
- http://reusabledata.org/
- Goals
- Facilitate legal interoperability through conversation about accessibility, comprehension, clarify, and licensing decisions that affect data sharing within the scientific community. (The Reusable Data Project, 2017). Evaluate biological and biomedical data sources for their data reusability and redistribution potential.
Vivli - Center for Global Clinical Research Data
- Sub-categories
- Licensing\ Informational resources\
- Started
- 2013
- Founded by
- The Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard (MRCT Center)
- Current URL
- https://vivli.org
- Goals
- Help researchers share and access data from clinical trials. Serve as a searchable repository for contributors and users, and provides tools, examples, and guidelines that facilitate the creation of data sharing agreements for sensitive and restricted information.