General FAQContact us NavigationNavigation The European Language Data SpaceWhat is the European Language Data Space (LDS)?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 less-resourced languages be acquired?How can potential data providers be reassured their data is safe?How safe is the European Language Data Space?How will the LDS be promoted?What are the pillars of the European Language Data Space?What benefits can I expect from the European Language Data Space?What data can and cannot be used?When published under a non-commercial license, is data still protected?Why should I make my data available through the LDS?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 audit trails or monitoring tools used to track data lineage and reuse across the LDS?How does LDS account for data quality and ensure data is not synthetic?How does LDS ensure that licensing conditions are respected when language data is reused within the ecosystem?How will data compliance, rules and guidelines be enforced?What kind of anonymisation needs to be applied to the data before it can be used?What mechanisms will be used to track the origin, versioning, and individual contributions to language datasets?Will data providers be responsible for ensuring their datasets don't violate intellectual property rights or contain personal information?Will operators of open data portals have to monitor and enforce license compliance?Will services like anonymisation or translation be offered on the LDS side?Will there be additional security measures for sensitive data like healthcare data? The LDS GovernanceWhat does governance mean in the European Language Data Space?What happens to the LDS 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
