Open Data
Following the
European code of conduct for research integrity, researchers, research institutions and organisations:
- ensure appropriate stewardship and curation of all data and research materials, including unpublished ones, with secure preservation for a reasonable period
- ensure access to data is as open as possible, as closed as necessary, and where appropriate in line with the FAIR Principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable) for data management
- provide transparency about how to access or make use of their data and research materials
- among other recommendations
This means that data should be:
- identified in a persistent manner using community conventions, and described using sufficiently rich metadata
- stored in such a way that they can be accessed by \(humans\) and \(machines\)
- structured in such a way that they can be combined with other data sets
- licensed or have terms-of-use that spell out how they can be used by others
- accompanied by a Data Management Plan (European Research Council provides this excellent description)
