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We are a collective of linguists, technologists, activists, researchers and creatives. Whether you’re interested in stewarding data, conducting research, developing new AI and ML technologies, or just want to be part of our community working to make AI all it promises to be - not all it threatens to
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No, you do not need to be a part of an organization to upload a dataset to Mozilla Data Collective. We recognize that there are many use cases where an individual might want to share datasets that they have created, either on their own or on behalf of a group.
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When you upload a dataset to Mozilla Data Collective, you have the option to make your dataset exclusive to MDC. The default terms of use for data providers on the platform is that datasets are exclusive to MDC. Choosing to host your dataset exclusively with MDC means that you do
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Our priority is technology that is more multilingual, multicultural, and multi-modal. We prioritise helping communities unlock content that is not on the web already, and prefer audio, image, and video formats, though we will also accept text documents that advance the above goals. Our expectation is that each dataset is
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About downloading and using datasets When downloading a dataset, am I getting permission to use it from Mozilla Data Collective or the Data Provider? When you download a dataset from Mozilla Data Collective, you are entering into an agreement with the Data Provider who published the dataset. Data Providers set
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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
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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 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.