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FAQ: What is Mozilla Data Collective?

Mozilla Data Collective

07 Aug 2025

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 - an experimental space for instigating new approaches to data stewardship challenges. Mozilla Data Collective works by allowing you to share your data, retain ownership of it, and control who uses it.

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

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FAQ: What is the MDC Public API?

FAQ: Can I get the Common Voice or other MDC datasets from other platforms like GitHub or Hugging Face?

Roadmap

FAQ: What is the long-term sustainability model for Mozilla Data Collective?