Open Data Dissemination

The project partners make sure to make the output data from the project findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. The project will produce three main types of data with increasing degree of confidentiality: a) Reports: Literature overviews, platform analyses and recommendations/guidelines b) Survey data in structured, anonymized (non-identifiable) form c) Interview transcripts from qualitative interviews with both ordinary citizens (participants and non-participants in the sharing economy) as well as experts/key stakeholders (employees and platform designers in the sharing economy) The data from the literature review will come in unstructured text form but we plan to synthesize the findings in a more structured manner, for example with tables or Figures that allow the inclusion of relational aspects (e.g., hyperlinks to the original studies within a table). We deem this type of data to be unproblematic for sharing in a public repository and – following the open access policy of Horizon 2020 projects – aim at making it freely available, corresponding with the FAIR Guidelines. In particular, we will host key documents from the reports and the reports themselves in an institutional repository of one (or all) of the participating institutions. (We will certainly use Alexandria (University of St. Gallen) and BI Brage (BI Norwegian Business School) to deposit these reports. Alexandria is based on the eprints software, allows the creation of project pages (where all adjacent and project-relevant documents can be stored), is well indexed in Google, enables the entry of a rich set of metadata, is indexed in Google Scholar and has social media plug-ins. This enables interoperability.) Thus, these documents will be findable and accessible. We aim at making key elements from the reports interoperable and reusable by transforming them into a machine-readable format (CSV tables or relational databases) under a Creative Commons CC-BY license. The survey data will come in structured form from an online survey. We will collaborate with an ESOMAR-certified market research company for the recruiting of participants and data collection and aim at 1500 responses across several European countries. We will adhere to good practice in survey design (e.g., prepare a participant information sheet as well as an understandable consent form). The respondents of the survey will remain anonymous and we will not ask for information that allows easy personal identification such as names, (email) addresses, postal code or employer. The survey data will be cleaned and uploaded in standard formats (CSV) on an institutional repository of one of the collaborating partners under a Creative Commons CC-BY license. Thus, it will be findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. Finally, the interview transcripts will include sensitive information. Thus, the project team will decide on a case-by-case basis whether to openly share the data – in anonymized form. For the expert interviews, non-disclosure agreements might prevent the data from being shared. We will weigh the privacy considerations first in all cases.