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In order to better serve our community and to keep up with current changes in best practices for data stewardship, we are changing how previous releases of the Common Voice datasets are accessed. They will now be accessible to interested researchers and others via an email-based request process. You will
Common Voice
We’re tightening the circulation of old datasets to protect contributors, while keeping a clear, documented path for researchers who need them.
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If you discover a minor issue with the accuracy of a data listing on Mozilla Data Collective (a typo, missing attribute in datasheet, etc.) and want to bring it to the attention of the data provider, reach out to the point of contact as specified in the data listing. If
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Mozilla Data Collective wants to provide effective, ethical stewardship support for datasets. This is challenging or impossible when datasets are mirrored or split across a range of forks. Our principles include trying to enable good governance, e.g. the right to be forgotten, as much as possible, which means we
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The Mozilla Data Collective REST API provides a way for developers to access datasets from their own applications, using the programming language of their choice. Users must agree to dataset terms through the web interface before downloading. Each download token can only be used for one complete download session, and
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We have no plans to host Mozilla community datasets through third parties at this time, as it makes governance and stewardship extremely challenging. For example, when someone chooses to revoke their consent to be included in a dataset, we need a way to remove them from the dataset and update
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We're excited to share a high-level roadmap for the Mozilla Data Collective platform, leading up to our 1.0 launch in early Q1 2026: September: Mozilla Data Collective Alpha Launch October: New Datasets Available November: Mozilla Data Collective Beta Launch * Dataset and datasheet on-boarding and upload flow * Feature
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We are a mission-driven, community-centred tech organisation being incubated within Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla Data Collective anticipates that we will have both social enterprise and non-profit components eventually, as we think that in today’s volatile, politicised grant funding environment, it’s never been more important to be independent. Our business
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We are backed and stewarded by Mozilla Foundation - the non-profit, movement-building, and philanthropy arm of Mozilla.
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We partner with organizations and individuals to make their data available through Mozilla Data Collective. You can share openly, using existing licenses like Creative Commons, or you can build your own. You can open up your data for everyone, or just for some types of downloaders, you can set custom
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Mozilla Data Collective is a platform in the truest sense. It’s yours to stand on, and make of it what you will. We have dual roots in two Mozilla projects - Common Voice, a CC0 public dataset to help tech speak your language - and the Data Futures Lab
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Over the last eight years, the Common Voice community has shared wishlists with us for ways to create, curate, and control their data that extend beyond our current platform capabilities. For example, supporting the collection and release of datasets under different licences to CC-0, and the ability to contribute datasets