Licenses – Data organisation practices

Instructional Material

The instructional content of this lesson is an adaptation of previous works and is made available under CC-BY 4.0 by NBIS - National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden 2020.

Adapted a selection of episodes from Data Organization in Spreadsheets for Ecologists
Licensed under CC-BY 4.0 2018–2024 by The Carpentries
Licensed under CC-BY 4.0 2016–2018 by Data Carpentry

Adapted a selection of episodes from Life Sciences Workshop
Licensed under CC-BY 4.0 2020-2024 by The Carpentries.

Adapted a selection of sections from The Data Management Expert Guide
Licensed under CC-BY 4.0 2017–2024 by CESSDA ERIC

Adapted selection of presentations from the Great Data Cleanup Summer Campaign
Licensed under CC-BY 4.0 2020-2024 by Julie Goldman

The website was built using a rebranded fork of The Carpentries style
Licensed under CC-BY 4.0 and MIT license 2016–2024 by Software Carpentry

The following is a human-readable summary of (and not a substitute for) the full legal text of the CC BY 4.0 license.

You are free:

to Share—copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
to Adapt—remix, transform, and build upon the material

for any purpose, even commercially.

The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

Under the following terms:

Attribution—You must give appropriate credit (mentioning that your work is derived from work that is Copyright © NBIS - National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden, © The Carpentries, © Data Carpentry and © Software Carpentry respectively and, where practical, linking to the corresponsing websites https://nbis.se, https://carpentries.org/, https://datacarpentry.org/ and https://software-carpentry.org/), provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
No additional restrictions—You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. With the understanding that:
- You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation.
- No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.

Figures and example data

The figures and example data referenced in this lesson are licensed as outlined in the table below:

Figure / example data	License
fig/keeping-records/csv-mistake.png	Tidy data for librarians, CC-BY 4.0 by Library Carpentry, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
fig/keeping-records/excel-to-csv.png	Tidy data for librarians, CC-BY 4.0 by Library Carpentry, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
fig/files-and-folders/files_messy_tidy.png	File Organization, CC-BY 4.0 by Data Carpentry, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
fig/files-and-folders/file_organisation.png	Illustration CC BY 4.0 by NBIS, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
fig/files-and-folders/slide_files.png	Illustration from The Great Data Cleanup Summer Campaign, CC-BY 4.0 2020-2021 by Julie Goldman, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
fig/example-file-structure/life-cycle.png	Data life cycle by SciLifeLab
fig/example-file-structure/Provenance.jpg	The Turing Way project illustration CC-BY 4.0 by Scriberia, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
fig/105-tabular-data/2_Multiple_Tables.png	Tidy data for librarians, CC-BY 4.0 by Library Carpentry, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
fig/105-tabular-data/3_white_table_1.jpg	Table 1 from Nine simple ways to make it easier to (re)use your data, CC-BY 4.0 by Ethan P. White, Elita Baldridge, Zachary T. Brym, Kenneth J. Locey, Daniel J. McGlinn, and Sarah R. Supp, https://doi.org/10.4033/iee.2013.6b.6.f
fig/105-tabular-data/5_excel_dates_1.jpg	Tidy data for librarians, CC-BY 4.0 by Library Carpentry, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
fig/105-tabular-data/formatting.png	Tidy data for librarians, CC-BY 4.0 by Library Carpentry, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
fig/105-tabular-data/good_formatting.png	Tidy data for librarians, CC-BY 4.0 by Library Carpentry, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
fig/105-tabular-data/multiple-info.png	Tidy data for librarians, CC-BY 4.0 by Library Carpentry, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
fig/105-tabular-data/single-info.png	Tidy data for librarians, CC-BY 4.0 by Library Carpentry, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
fig/105-tabular-data/spreadsheet-setup-updated.png	Data Organization in Spreadsheets for Ecologists, CC-BY 4.0 by Data Carpentry, https://datacarpentry.org/spreadsheet-ecology-lesson/
data/training_attendance_start.xlsx	Tidy data for librarians, CC-BY 4.0 by Library Carpentry, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
data/training_attendance_end.xlsx	Data file by NBIS, derived from Tidy data for librarians, CC-BY 4.0 by Library Carpentry, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
fig/example-file-structure/Initial_file_system.png	Figure CC BY 4.0 by NBIS, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
fig/keeping-records/analogue_notes.jpeg	Photo CC BY 4.0 by NBIS, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
data/Famous_project_No-1!.zip	Practice project CC BY 4.0 by NBIS, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
data/Famous_project_in_order.zip	Practice project CC BY 4.0 by NBIS, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
fig/files-and-folders/Mona_Lisa_naming.jpg	Illustration by © Nathan W. Pyle, https://twitter.com/nathanwpyle/status/1108902487203958784
files/module-organising-data-dm-practice-nov-2024.pdf Presentation CC BY 4.0 by NBIS, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Software

Except where otherwise noted, the example programs and other software provided by Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry are made available under the OSI-approved MIT license.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Trademark

“Software Carpentry” and “Data Carpentry” and their respective logos are registered trademarks of Community Initiatives.