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:

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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
module-organising-data-dm-practice-apr-2023.pdf	Presentation CC BY 4.0 by NBIS, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Software

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