FAQ: Contribution of resources

  • Q

    I am a member of an organisation / I have a legal relation to an organisation that has already set up a META-SHARE repository and I want to add my resource. What do I have to do?

    A

    You should contact the person responsible for the META-SHARE repository in your organisation in order to get credentials to register and then upload your resource.


  • Q

    I am a member of an organisation / I have a legal relation to an organisation that has no connection to META-SHARE and I want to add my resource. What do I have to do?

    A

    You should investigate whether your organisation intends to set up a META-SHARE repository.

    If yes, then contact the person responsible for the META-SHARE repository in your organisation in order to get credentials to register and then upload your resource.

    If not, then see instructions for the Contribution of resources by individual researchers: from META-SHARE's home page select Participate > Share Your Language Resources > Contribution of resources by individual researchers.


  • Q

    I am a researcher who is not affiliated to any organisation and I want to add my resource to META-SHARE. What do I have to do?

    A

    The steps to follow are:

    1.  Choose the META-SHARE node with the Repository that will host your resources.

    2. Please fill in the necessary information of the Depositor's Agreement (DA) to be signed between you and the Repository. The pdf version is available here. You can contact the hosting Repository for the editable version of the document. Sign, scan and send the DA to the hosting Repository.  

    3. Licensing: please note that we recommend

    a.  Creative Commons licenses (a tabular overview available here).

    b.  META-SHARE No Redistribution licenses (a tabular overview available here). 

    Kindly note that we are trying to simplify the licensing procedures and therefore upgrade licenses to the latest version. This being said, we will soon migrate to CC 4.0 (although now we are still at CC 3.0).

    4.  Registration: Please register yourself as a user at the selected META-SHARE node.

    5.  Metadata: you will have to document your resources using the META-SHARE metadata editor.


  • Q

    Do I have to sign any document before I upload my resources to the META-SHARE tool?

    A

    You have to sign the Depositor's Agreement, where you state that you have cleared all IPR issues on the metadata and the data, that you licence the metadata under a Creative Commons Attribution International (CC-BY) version 4.0 or higher, or the EU Open Metadata Licence, and that you have not infringed any law by uploading the resources.

    For more details, see the Depositor's Agreement.


  • Q

    What does it mean to share my resource through META-SHARE?

    A

    Once you share your resources through META-Share, they will be available to others according to your licensing terms: e.g. they can be available to everyone or only to META-SHARE Members (i.e. to people who have shared their own resources) or only to academics/researchers or for academic and commercial use etc.

    You have full control over the way your resources are distributed, described and documented. You can opt to let people download your resources freely, to access them via a tool/interface or to contact you in order to get them. Furthermore, by joining META-SHARE, you join the community of resource sharing, so you get to share other people's resources.

    For information about the administrative and technical steps to follow, please check the relevant FAQs sections How to become a member of META-SHARE and Registration.