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Sharing commitment (in DMP)

A statement in a DMP specifying which datasets will be shared, to whom, on what licence, with what timing relative to project end, and through which infrastructure.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board
· Last updated 21 May 2026

Examples

Worked examples

  • Is an instance

    A commitment to deposit anonymised survey data in UKDS under controlled access 12 months after project end.

  • Is an instance

    A commitment to release final code under MIT licence via Zenodo at project end.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

  • Not an instance

    A statement 'data will be available on reasonable request' (not operationally meaningful).

  • Not an instance

    A retention statement without an access statement.

Editorial commentary

Sharing commitments are the focus of funder open-data policies. Typical structure: dataset; access category (open, restricted, controlled, closed); licence (CC-BY-4.0 commonly); embargo period; repository. maDMPs encode these structurally so that compliance can be machine-checked at deposit time.

References

  • Horizon Europe Annotated Grant Agreement Article 17; NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy.

Also known as

DMP access commitment · DMP sharing statement

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element
xml
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      vocab-term="Sharing commitment (in DMP)"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/sharing-commitment-in-dmp" />
Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)
json
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  "sameAs": [
    "DMP access commitment",
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  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}

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