Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A researcher who spent six months cleaning and documenting a 50-GB dataset for Dryad deposit with a DataCite DOI
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
Uploading an undocumented zip to a personal Dropbox is not an open-data contribution in the FAIR sense
Editorial commentary
Open-data work includes metadata curation, format conversion, README authoring, schema design, deposit, and ongoing maintenance — labour that is often invisible in traditional credit systems. Increasingly recognised through DataCite DOIs, data citations, and CRediT-extension fields.
References
- Wilkinson et al. 2016 Scientific Data (FAIR Principles)
- FORCE11 Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles (2014)
Also known as
Data curation contribution · Data stewardship contribution
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
xml
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vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
vocab-term="Open-data contribution"
vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/open-data-contribution" />json
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"description": "The substantive work of preparing, documenting, depositing, and maintaining a research dataset in a FAIR-aligned open repository under a permissive licence, distinct from the original data collection.",
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"url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/open-data-contribution",
"sameAs": [
"Data curation contribution",
"Data stewardship contribution"
],
"license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}
