Institute to publish its datasets under an open licence
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The Institute has confirmed that the indices and datasets it maintains will be released under a Creative Commons Attribution licence, each accompanied by a codebook and named sources.
The International Research Institute has confirmed that the indices and datasets it maintains will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence, allowing others to reuse the data with attribution.
Each dataset will be released with a codebook documenting every variable, its source and the choices made in its construction, together with a persistent identifier so that a specific version can be cited and checked.
“Composite measures compress complex realities into a single number, and readers deserve to see how that number was built,” said Director of Research Karolina Nowak-Dubois. “Open data and documented method are how we invite scrutiny rather than ask for trust.”
The commitment applies to every dataset the Institute maintains, across all nine of its research areas. Where a dataset draws on third-party material under separate terms, those terms are set out in the accompanying documentation.
Each dataset will carry this licence and its documentation as it is published in the Institute’s data and indicators section.