TWG CARE Principles

The subject of the TWG is the CARE Principles, which are intended to explicitly secure the rights of indigenous peoples to research data in the context of open data and open science. The focus is on the following aspects: collective benefit, authority to control, responsibility and ethics.

The TWG ‘CARE Principles’ aims to prepare the topic for the field of archaeology and related sciences in order to sensitise researchers to the issue and identify possible pitfalls. The TWG will focus on determining the specific context in which the CARE Principles are relevant within the framework of N4O and how researchers can respond to them. It will consider whether there are particular challenges in applying the CARE Principles, especially in the context of the historical objects that are the focus of the NFDI4Objects community.

A key question concerns which aspects of CARE relate to research data management (RDM). This is because the CARE principles primarily refer to ‘soft factors’ such as communication and participation. It is therefore necessary to determine what specifically needs to be taken into account in RDM when integrating the CARE principles and which RDM mechanisms can be used to ensure a high degree of compatibility between the CARE and FAIR principles.

The aim is to develop a guide on how to deal with the CARE principles. Above all, this guide should provide guidance on whether data should be considered sensitive in terms of the CARE principles or not.