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How Open Licensing is Changing with AI: The NOODL License

Author: Alek Tarkowski For the last twenty five years, standardized open licenses were increasingly seen as a main tool for democratizing access to knowledge. Over less then a decade, a relatively narrow set of canonical choices emerged: the Creative Commons licensing stack https://creativecommons.org/licenses/list.en, coupled with

Exciting Updates for Mozilla Data Collective

Today we’re so excited to announce exciting platform changes to Mozilla Data Collective that bring us closer to fulfilling our promise to give everyone the Data Platform for Human Agency and Fair Value Exchange. 

Request to Access Feature is now Available

With this release, uploaders can now gate access to their datasets, requiring users to request permission and share their email address before downloading. 

Fine-Tune a Speech-to-Text Model for Any Language - Including Yours

A step-by-step developer tutorial from Kostis at Mozilla Data Collective

Datasheets: The Missing Manual for your Dataset

In this video, produced by the Data Nutrition Project and illustrated by Jessica Yurkofsky, you'll learn more about the role of the datasheet and how you can use it to give clear guidance to potential downloaders about how your data can (and can't!) be used.

Upcoming Domain Change on 09 April

In mid-April, Mozilla Data Collective's primary domain will change to mozilladatacollective.com

MDC Release Notes - 30.03.26

379 new datasets with a Mozilla Common Voice update, improvements to the Python SDK (make sure you update to the latest!) and a preview of an upcoming feature. 👀

On contributing my Thorsten-Voice voice datasets

Thorsten Müller has created five TTS voice datasets totaling 40 hours of German speech data. In this community-authored post, he speaks to the importance of sharing his voice.

On contributing my Thorsten-Voice voice datasets [DE]

Thorsten Müller hat fünf TTS-Stimmdatensätze mit insgesamt 40 Stunden an deutschen Sprachdaten erstellt. In diesem von der Community verfassten Beitrag spricht er über die Bedeutung, seine Stimme zu teilen.

Why Whisper Still Struggles with Australian English - and What We Did About It

By Kathy Reid · Mozilla Data Collective Ask a Queenslander to say "no worries" into a Home Assistant Voice Preview. There's a decent chance it mishears them. Ask someone from Radelaide and things get worse. Ask anyone who grew up calling things "heaps good" and

How can a nearly century-old publisher remain relevant and continue to grow?

Panjebar Semangat, a weekly Javanese-language magazine established before Indonesian independence, is collaborating with Mozilla Data Collective to advance community-governed language dataset frameworks.

Call for proposals: MDC is commissioning mission-aligned datasets!

Mozilla Data Collective is building towards a multicultural, multilingual, and multimodal future that works for all of us. And over the past few months, we’ve listened as people have flagged what kinds of datasets they need, but are struggling to find.  So we’re pleased to announce that MDC