FAQ: Who is behind Mozilla Data Collective?
We are backed and stewarded by Mozilla Foundation - the non-profit, movement-building, and philanthropy arm of Mozilla.
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FAQ: What is the MDC Public API?
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
FAQ: Can I get the Common Voice or other MDC datasets from other platforms like GitHub or Hugging Face?
We have no plans to host Mozilla community datasets through third parties at this time, as it makes governance and stewardship extremely challenging. Mozilla community datasets, including Mozilla Common Voice datasets are exclusively available through MDC for this reason. Our new terms reflect this. Some of our contributors’ open datasets
Roadmap
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
FAQ: What is the long-term sustainability model for Mozilla Data Collective?
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