Legal, Ethical and Commercial Issues
Data Policy and Planning
What legal, ethical and commercial checks are performed before a grant proposal is submitted?
Who owns the research information associated with a grant?
How do you gain informed consent from research participants to enable sharing and reuse of data beyond the lifetime of the project?
Does any code for responsible research affect your work? If so, how?
What institutional policies or guidelines do you need to comply with in regard RDM? E.g. treatment of sensitive data
How does legislation (e.g. Data Protection Act (1998) and Freedom of Information in the UK (also Database Rights)) affect your data?
What policies are in place governing security, integrity, access, sharing and publishing of your research datasets?
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Is there more to do in this area?
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Capture and Collection (Primary Data)
Are you subject to any restrictions on how primary data is used? e.g. via an end-user license
Who owns the primary data arising from your research? Who holds the intellectual property rights relating to them?
Are primary data subject to any legal, ethical or commercial considerations during data collection? If so, what are they?
What financial or contractual obligations might require you to retain primary data beyond the life a project?
Under what licences do you make primary data available to others?
Who is responsible for the long-term stewardship of primary data?
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Is there more to do in this area?
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Processing and Analysis (Intermediate Data)
Who owns any intermediate data arising from your research? Who holds the intellectual property rights relating to them?
Are intermediate data subject to any legal, ethical or commercial considerations during processing and analysis? If so, what are they?
Are there any financial or contractual obligations that require you to retain or destroy intermediate data beyond the life a project? If so, what are they?
Under what licences do you make intermediate data available to others?
Who is responsible for the long-term stewardship of intermediate data?
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Is there more to do in this area?
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Data Curation
Who owns the results data arising from your research? Who holds the intellectual property rights relating to them?
Are results data subject to any legal, ethical or commercial considerations? If so, what are they?
Are there any financial or contractual obligations that require you to retain results data beyond the life a project? If so, what are they?
Under what licences do you make results data available to others?
Who is responsible for the long-term stewardship of the data?
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Is there more to do in this area?
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Publication and Sharing
Are there any legal, ethical or commercial reasons why your data should not be shared or published?
How do you manage data release?
What mechanisms are in place to ensure legal and/or ethical use of your data? E,g, end-user licenses
How do you monitor the use of any published data?
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Is there more to do in this area?
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Reuse and Impact
What attribution mechanisms do you use when using exisiting data?
What policies are in place relating to the use, reuse, repurposing and integration of existing datasets?
What are the common types of usage licenses you encounter when using pre-published data?
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Is there more to do in this area?
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