Reusable quiz
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1. What issues do you need to consider when you are preparing your own data for reuse? Select all that apply.
- Whether the data might be considered to be sensitive data
- How you will clearly indicate how others are allowed to use it
- Which metadata standards and controlled vocabularies provide accurate and relevant information about the content and context of the research data
- The file formats which are prepared for reuse
- Conventions and standards of the platform, portal or repository to deposit the data
- Completeness of data documentation for future users
- True or false: “If it’s on the Internet, it’s free to use for any purpose”
- True
- False
- Which Creative Commons licence would you use if you want all derivatives to use the same licence?
- What metadata can aid reuse of research data? Select all that apply.
- Description of content and context (who what when where why how)
- Preferred citation including attribution as specified by the licensor
- File formats in which the data are available
- Methodology and data processing workflows
- The standards and formats used to structure the data
- Preservation actions that have been applied to the research data
- Which of the following resources about licensing research data focuses specifically on copyright in the Australian context? Select all that apply.
- DCC’s How to License Research Data
- ARDC’s Research Data Rights Management Guide
- ARDC’s Data rightsholder’s/creator’s flowchart
- FOSTER’s The Open Science Training Handbook chapter on Open Licensing and File Formats
- Which of these is true under Australian law? Select all that apply.
- You cannot copyright a fact
- The copyright of data always lies with the institution
- Creative Commons licences are not valid
- Fair Use allows any data to be freely used for research or study purposes
7. Following ARDC recommended practice in data citation, what is the correct citation for this dataset record?
- Golden Plains Shire Council, 2006, Golden Plains Koala Habitat, data.gov.au (Dataset) https://researchdata.edu.au/golden-plains-koala-habitat/1433974
- Golden Plains Shire Council, 2017, Golden Plains Koala Habitat, data.gov.au (Dataset) https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/3ae6b627-454f-4866-bf98-0cf167403915
- gis@gplains.vic.gov.au, 2017, Golden Plains Koala Habitat, data.gov.au (Dataset) https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/3ae6b627-454f-4866-bf98-0cf167403915
- Golden Plains Shire Council, 2006, Golden Plains Koala Habitat, data.gov.au (Dataset) https://researchdata.edu.au/golden-plains-koala-habitat/1433974
8. What would not be included in the provenance of a data set?
- The method by which it was produced
- The person responsible for its creation
- The licence under which it has been made available
- The data set from which is was derived