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Dear Georgina et al, Thank you for raising this is extremely important question for research data management, sharing, and preservation! It is one that research data orgs such as the CODATA-Research Data Alliance Legal Interoperability Group have wrestled with in crafting the just-released Principles and Implementation Guidelines for Legal Interoperability of Research Data (http://www.codata.org/uploads/Legal%20Interoperability%20Principles%20and%20Implementation%20Guidelines_Final2.pdf). Our conclusion is that data ownership rights may often not track with creator/authorship credit and are often determined by policies from funders, sponsors, or employing institutions. Using Rights Statements and providing guidance on attribution are at the center of the released Legal Interop Principles & Guidelines. On a related note, a study of North American university (AAU) Intellectual Property policies (presented at SciDataCon in Sept 2016, http://www.scidatacon.org/2016/sessions/84/) finds a lot of ambiguity around ownership of research data. Under US Law, institutional ownership of research outputs may either track with institutional authorship (if a Work For Hire claim is made) OR may coexist with researcher-authorship, if the institute policy requires that researchers immediately transfer copyright to the employer. The 62 IP policies being analyzed for the above-referenced study show a very murky and varied set of practices, regrettably! In sum, it looks like the norms and expectations around authorship of research data are yet to be achieved...hopefully discussions here, in RDA-CODATA, and engaging with publishing ethics experts like COPE, ICMJE, and other editorial groups will get us where we need to be! Gail Gail P. Clement | Head of Research Services | Caltech Library | Mail Code 1-43 | Pasadena CA 91125-4300 | 626-395-1203 http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5494-4806 | library.caltech.edu From: Research Data Management discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Parsons, Georgina Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 6:24 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Data authorship guidelines Hello, Does anyone have guidance or a policy on who can be a named creator/author of a dataset? Perhaps along the lines of the Vancouver protocol for publications. We're starting to think we need one here as there isn't full agreement on the point. Generally, this is in the case of datasets underlying publications: one point of view being that the authors should only be the project team members who were actually involved in data creation/processing, but the other being that all researchers involved in authoring the article should be listed as data creators. The DataCite metadata schema<http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-3/doc/DataCite-MetadataKernel_v3.1.pdf> says for creator: "The main researchers involved in producing the data, or the authors of the publication, in priority order" which doesn't help much, and it can be a sensitive point so we'd like to set out some guidance before getting involved in further discussions. Many thanks, Georgina Parsons Research Data Manager Information Services Building 55, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire MK43 0AL E: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> T: +44 (0) 1234 75 4548 W: www.cranfield.ac.uk<http://www.cranfield.ac.uk> This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended only for the named addressee. If you are not the named addressee, please accept our apology, notify the sender immediately and then delete the email. We request that you do not disclose, use, copy or distribute any information within it. Any opinions expressed are not necessarily the corporate view of Cranfield University. This email is not intended to be contractually binding unless specifically stated and the sender is an authorised University signatory. Whilst we have taken steps to ensure that this email and all attachments are free from any virus, we advise that, in keeping with good computing practice, the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free.