📄️ Introduction
The ELSA section addresses ethical, legal, and social aspects that affect the activities of the NFDI. Many of these topics concern several, if not all, NFDI consortia. Questions of data protection and intellectual property rights are increasingly relevant throughout the research data lifecycle. Ethical questions around data use arise with respect to data originating from indigenous and other communities. And what should societal participation in research data look like?
📄️ WG Ethics
The Working Group Ethics (WGE) provides a space to discuss ethical questions — kept as distinct from legal questions as possible — that arise in various NFDI consortia, and to develop useful knowledge and guidelines to help address these questions.
📄️ WG Data Protection
The Working Group Data Protection promotes the exchange on FAIR data management and data protection regulations within the NFDI community. A key output of its work is a series of factsheets that help researchers reconcile the FAIR principles with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
📄️ WG LARA
The Working Group LARA is the newest working group within ELSA. It focuses on tools that help researchers choose an appropriate license for their outputs (data, code, etc.) and automate the creation of data use agreements.