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What are the best practices around open data?

• Goodman et al. (2014) outline Ten Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data
• The Harvard Biomedical Data Management group summarize best practices around security and access, file naming as well as versioning, with a clear focus on biomedical data.
• Born-open data is archived publicly directly or very soon after its collection, ideally in an automated way. This practice maximises transparency by obviating the need for on-demand data sharing from the start.
• The German Psychological Society (DGPs) provides Guidelines for Data Management in Psychological Science.

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