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Data governance

Datasets carry explicit ownership, licence and access conditions. This page sets out how we govern data — including data we do not, and will not, publish.

This is draft content provided for transparency and requires legal review before it is relied upon.

Ownership model

Every dataset states its ownership: institute-owned, third-party (used or evaluated, not owned), or community-governed. We do not claim ownership of third-party data.

Licences & access

Datasets carry an explicit licence and access conditions. Where the measured data is available we host it and link a download; where it is not, we say so honestly rather than implying a dataset that does not exist.

Community-governed data

Community-governed data — such as any future Auslan corpus — is subject to the community's informed, revocable consent and to community-controlled takedown. Consent and governance are prerequisites, not afterthoughts.

What we never publish

We publish no personal, health or sign-language video data through this website, and the collaboration form must not be used to submit such data.

Requesting data or takedown

For access to data not currently hosted, or to request a takedown, contact us via the Collaborate page.