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Degrees of Openness

Degrees of Openness

1. What is the guiding principle of Degrees of Openness?

Share all data whenever possible

Restrict all visual data by default

Share visual data as openly as possible and as restricted as necessary

Only share data after publication

2. Which two dimensions determine the degree of openness?

Metadata and licensing

Copyright and anonymization

Permitted access and permitted usage

FAIR principles and repositories

3. If visual data cannot be shared because of privacy concerns, what can researchers still publish?

The privacy policy

Descriptive metadata

Participants’ personal information

The original recordings

4. What does permitted usage describe?

Who can view the dataset

Where the data are stored

What users are allowed to do with the visual data once they have access

Who collected the data

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