General FAQContact us NavigationNavigation The European Language Data SpaceWhat benefits can I expect from the Language Data Space?What is the Language Data Space?Why should I make my data available through the Language Data Space?Are non-EU Countries eligible to join the LDS?Do you have to be a data provider to be data consumer/user?How can data providers from the private sector be incentivised to share their data?How can language data for minority languages that are hardly accessible digitally be acquired?How can potential data providers be reassured their data is safe?How safe is the European Language Data Space?How will the platform be promoted?What are the pillars of the Language Data Space?What data can and cannot be used?When published under a non-commercial license, is data still protected?Will non-European companies/users be priced differently?Will the LDS and its resources be open to students? Practical hintsCan a data provider be contacted directly by other LDS users?How can I apply to become a member of the LDS marketplace?How can I discover data products through the LDS catalogue?How can I negotiate access to data products in the LDS marketplace?How can I offer data products in the LDS marketplace?How can I securely exchange language data in the LDS marketplace?How can I transfer the data products to my server?How do financial transactions take place in the LDS?How does the LDS connector work?What is the procedure to update a certain data offering in the LDS context?Will there be a specific negotiation feature in the LDS UI? Intellectual Property Rights and Data ProtectionAre there audit trails or monitoring tools currently used to track data lineage and reuse across the LDS infrastructure?Can or will services like anonymisation or translation be offered on the LDS side to help potential data providers get their data in publishable condition?How does the LDS account for data quality and ensure data is not synthetic? Is there a system in place to gauge the quality of a resource?How will data compliance, rules and guidelines be enforced?How will sensitive data, like healthcare data, be handled? Will there be additional security measures?Should the responsibility for monitoring and enforcing license compliance rest primarily with the operators of open data portals?What frameworks or methodologies will be used to track the origin, versioning, and individual contributions to language datasets?What kind of anonymisation needs to be applied to the data before it can be used?What mechanisms are in place to ensure that licensing conditions are respected when language data is reused or redistributed within the ecosystem?Will data providers be held responsible for not violating intellectual property rights or containing personal information/data in their datasets? The LDS GovernanceWhat does governance mean in the Language Data Space?What happens to the marketplace after the funding period ends?What is the LDS User Group? Related topicsHow are pre-existing infrastructures like CLARIN ERIC related to LDS?What is a Data Space?What is an EDIC?What is the ALT-EDIC?What is the relationship between LDS and ALT-EDIC?What is the relationship between LDS and ELG?What other Data Spaces are there? Related links Legal FAQTechnical FAQ