Each year during Valentine’s week, the open research community around the world celebrates good data practices with webinars and training opportunities covering a wide range of research data tools, methods, and workflows. This year many of the events and resources are presented on the theme:
Whose Data Is It, Anyway?
February 10-14, 2025
#LoveData25
Navigating data ownership, and the related permissions to use, share, and preserve data for the long term, can be complicated both for the researcher or organisation collecting and publishing data as well as any secondary researchers looking to gain new insights from the data already available. Aside from the legal considerations required by GDPR, Copyright, and Intellectual Property laws, there may often be nuanced ethical considerations around credit and acknowledgment, particularly for participants in social studies or communities sharing cultural knowledge and traditions.
In this post, we highlight a few DRI resources that have been developed over the years to help manage the legal and ethical responsibilities of data ownership. We also include below a curated list of Love Data Week events that are particularly relevant to DRI’s research disciplines.
DRI resources on Copyright, Licences & Credit
- DRI Citation Policy 2024 10.7486/DRI.vx02f960j
- DRI Factsheet No 2: Copyright, Licensing and Open Access 10.7486/DRI.v4066146t
- The EU Copyright Directive (video) https://repository.dri.ie/catalog/xw432021n
- Copyright Issues in Community Digital Archives https://doi.org/10.7486/DRI.cz313c63t
DRI resources on Anonymisation & Ethics in Research
- Defamation Risks in Oral Histories 10.7486/DRI.8w334z742
- Ethical Approval for Research Projects: A How-to Guide 10.7486/DRI.dr27bq50c
- Archiving Reproductive Health Anonymisation Protocol 10.7486/DRI.8910zn364
- Ethics Protocol: Archiving Reproductive Health 10.7486/DRI.6t05h703d-1
Upcoming DRI Event:
What’s love got to do with… data policies?
February 14, 11:00-12:00 UTC, Online
Highlights from around the world
There are a whole host of interesting, free, online workshops being offered in relation to Love Data Week. For a comprehensive list of events, see the Love Data Week calendar hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).
The Ethics of Social Media Data in Research
The Ohio State University Center for Ethics and Human Values
Monday February 10, 17:00-18:15 UTC, Online
Making Others’ Data Your Own: Adding Value and Promoting Interoperability through Secondary Data Collection and Use
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Monday February 10, 18:00-19:00 UTC, Online
Reproductive Justice and Open Information Access on Wikipedia
Johns Hopkins University
Tuesday February 11, 15:00-16:00 UTC, Online
To Love Data is to Licence Data, A Primer on the Relationship between Copyright and Data
Dalhousie University
Tuesday February 11, 16:30-15:30 UTC, Online
Alice in DaSCHland: Navigating the Maze of Data Ownership
DaSCH – Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities
Wednesday February 12, 13:30–14:30 UTC, Online
Voices Behind the Screen, Navigating Data Collected from Online Forums
University of Waterloo
Wednesday February 12, 15:00–16:00 UTC, Online
Data access statements: building trust through transparency
Newcastle University & Northumbria University
Thursday February 13, 10:00-11:00 UTC, Online
Indigenous Data Sovereignty: The Elements of Care
The Ohio State University
Thursday February 13, 19:30-20:30 UTC, Online
