Archive and share data
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See also:
- What is a data management plan
- Funder requirements
- Data management plan tools & examples
- Pre-registration
- Find data
- Collect data ethically
- Research with Indigenous communities
- File formats
- File naming, organization, versioning
- Document & describe
- Storage & backup
- Analyze & visualize data
- Prepare data for archiving, sharing
- Where to share data
- Data licenses
- Cite data
- Resources
Data licenses
A license defines what others may or may not do with your data.
When sharing your data in a repository, for a example, you can choose to apply a broad license to your data that allows anyone to do whatever they like with it. Alternatively, you can choose a narrower license that restricts use to strictly non-commercial activities and requires attribution to the data creator when it is used.
There are two primary sources for data licenses:
- Creative Commons (CC)
- Open Data Commons (ODC)
If you deposit your data in Concordia's Dataverse, the default license is CC-0, however all the other CC licenses are available as well.
NOTE: Be sure you own the data! You can only publish data that you own or for which you've received permission to share. More information on data ownership and licenses.
