1. Do We Need a Code of Conduct on Research Data Ethics & Integrity?
Heidi Laine / International Data Week 2018

2. What is a code of conduct
Codes of conduct are about policy, self-regulation, and soft-law
They are about the ”right thing to do” vs. the legal minimum
It lays out principles for ethically and morally responsible action for individuals within a specified domain
What it isn’t is a manual

3. What can be achieved by a Coc?
Give guidance and advice
Raise awareness on an issue
Show to society at large, that research community is awake and can be trusted
Empower national and local actors to push for action
Introduce new concepts
Process of drafting a CoC can be equally, if not even more, influential as the final product

4. Examples of international codes
Singapore Statement on Research Integrity (by World Conference on RI)
Montréal Statement on Cross-boundary Research Collaboration (by WCRI)
European Code of Conduct on Research Integrity (by All European Academies)
TOP guidelines (by Open Science Centre)
COPE guideline (by COPE)
Sanaa code of conduct (by the Sanaa community)

5. Research integrity and data
How to credit and acknowledge creators of data
How to share data and data creatorship credits with citizen scientists
Data ownership and copyright
Data ownership in cross-border reearch co-operation
Data management planning practices
FAIR principles (making metadata open)
Data and reproducibility of research results
Long-term preservation: how to make priorizations
Workflows: proprietary vs. non-commercial

6. Research ethics and data
Handling of personal information (GDPR, but a hot topic all over)
Gathering, using, storing, sharing social media data
Principles of informed consent
Group privacy (big data about people like me is about me)
Pseudonymization and anonymization

7. What makes a succesful code?
Drafting process that is engaging and open
Despite co-design, process still has a clear (co-)owner(s)
Language is concise, clear and precise
Mechanism for updating the code

8. How to proceed? There is no need for such code. Let’s do nothing.
Good idea, but not for DPC/CODATA. Let’s pitch this to someone else > Who?
Good idea, and DPC/CODATA could facilitate the process. > What are the next action points, and who do we need onboard?

9. Stakeholders International Science Council ISC
All European Academies ALLEA
InterAcademy Panel
European Network of Research Ethics and Research Integrity ENERI