Stefan Ollinger (Sep 20 2023 at 08:20): Stefan Ollinger (Sep 20 2023 at 08:20):Do Dataverse datasets have a notion of open access/closed access?
Zenodo records for example have a access_right field, which can be open, embargoed, restricted or closed.
Currently the closest I could find are license and termsOfUse, although the values are not from a controlled vocabulary.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Sep 20 2023 at 11:04):Hi! Yes, Dataverse has the same concepts. Just yesterday I was rediscovering how to get the embargo status of a file via API: #community > Retrieve Files Embargo status for API :sweat_smile:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Sep 20 2023 at 11:05):The default license is CC0, which I assume qualifies as open access.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Sep 20 2023 at 11:05):Installations of Dataverse can add as many licenses as they want. @Philipp Conzett helped make that feature happen.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Sep 20 2023 at 11:09):Restricted is at the file level. If you go to Harvard Dataverse and click the "Files" facet, you'll see a facet called "Access" that shows which files are public, restricted, or embargoed: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/harvard?q=&types=files
Stefan Ollinger (Sep 21 2023 at 08:28):Possibly one could then declare a dataset as "open access" when the dataset has a CC0 license and all files are public
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Sep 21 2023 at 10:41):Sure, that makes sense. Are you thinking there would be a badge? Or a search facet to click? Or both, or other ideas? :big_smile:
Stefan Ollinger (Sep 21 2023 at 15:37):Some kind of badge, e.g. like Zenodo does it https://zenodo.org/record/3958960 , could indeed be useful as an indicator for a user and to promote open access/open science.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Sep 21 2023 at 17:57):So, just a little green badge, like this? That doesn't sound too hard. :big_smile:
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Philip Durbin 🚀 (Sep 21 2023 at 17:57):The badge isn't even clickable.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Sep 21 2023 at 17:58):I guess the main things are deciding what the rules are, when you get the badge. Like you said CC0 license and public files, would be a good starting point. That's the default for Dataverse anyway.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Sep 21 2023 at 17:59):@Stefan Ollinger if you want, please feel free to create an issue, a feature request, for this: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues
Stefan Ollinger (Sep 22 2023 at 11:37):@Philip Durbin done: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/9943 :smile:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Sep 22 2023 at 11:55):Thanks!
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