Data Sharing Directory

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Tools

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

Sub-categories
Licensing
Started
2017
Founded by
ELDAH (“Ethics and Legality in Digital Arts and Humanities”) is a working group of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities DARIAH-EU.
Current URL
https://consent.dariah.eu/
Goals
The aim of the CFW is to support humanities researchers within the European Union in obtaining valid consent for data processing in the context of their specific professional activity.

DataTags

Sub-categories
Informational Resource Licensing
Started
2016
Founded by
BioMedBridges
Current URL
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Goals
Status
Develop a query workflow user interface that assesses the types of data being shared and presents results for what restrictions and requirements are applicable (Kuchinke et al., 2016).

Sub-categories
Rights
Started
2015
Founded by
Harvard’s Dataverse
Current URL
https://datatags.org/
Goals
Develop a system for tagging datasets in repositories by their varying levels of sensitivity and data sharing restrictions (Sweeney, Crosas, & Bar-Sinai, 2015).

ShareDB - A Licensing Model and Ecosystem for Data Sharing

Sub-categories
Licensing
Started
2016
Founded by
Drexel University’s Metadata Research Center, MIT, Brown University
Current URL
https://cci.drexel.edu/mrc/research/a-licensing-model-and-ecosystem-for-data-sharing/
Goals
Facilitate the process of data sharing among industry, academia, and government (Metadata Research Center, 2018). The project has three interconnected components - a licensing framework/generator; a data sharing platform,called ShareDB, to enforce some of the privacy and compliance aspects of the licenses; and robust metadata for the datasets as well as the developed licenses, to communicate data handling and rights specifications in a machine-readable way.

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.