10 Limits

10.1 Not being open may be important

When does “as closed as necessary” apply?

The protection of individuals comes first and is more important than the potential reuse of data

e.g., individuals traumatized by war or who experienced sexual abuse
At the same time: Can sharing data help to protect these groups from being over-researched (possibly re-traumatization)?

cases in which field access is obstructed or denied by the data provision (Prosser et al., 2022)
cases in which sharing reduces the reduces the willingness to participate

e.g., low reuse potential -> publish for reproducibility
e.g., when obtaining permission from the school authorities is extremely complicated
e.g., epistemic problem: context of data collection is highly relevant and other researchers “haven’t been there” (Mauthner et al., 1998) -> publish for intersubjective comprehensibility
e.g., can’t anonymize data -> synthpop, create input-output-documents via RMarkdown/Quarto

Responsibility of opening research is a collective responsibility in the “research ecosystem” (European Commission, 2018; RfII, 2019)
Researchers are just one part of this

Infrastructure

Context

Do scientific societies, journals, or research funders encourage sharing?
Is it common practice (“culture”) in my field of research to share data? (Bishop, 2006)
Are there standards established for data sharing?
Do ethics committees request detailed reasoning for the intent to collect own data as opposed to re-using?

Research project

See reasons above on

Researchers

Questions to be answered at the end?
Please put them here!