stranak
commented
9 years ago Other than this I think we want to say clearly (possibly also directly in the submission workflow) that we very much encourage submitting data and we can protect it and restrict access, if need be. Not submitting it means among else that we cannot give the record a license. That being said, we still do accept records without data.
vidiecan
Some material you can use as you see fit.
Why we need real Authors (i.e. real people, not institutes, etc.)
It is not about contact, it is about citations, credit and trust. That is why we have separate metadata fields for authors and for contact person. Contact to a helpdesk is perfect, not acknowledging the autors of a scholarly work is not. We support the direct citation of data (https://www.force11.org/datacitation). That is why we also give them PIDs, create formated citations, etc. That is the reason we really want proper authors, so that they get citations and other scientists know whos work they rely on.
For datasets that require license signing
While we prefer open data and open source software, we understand it is not alweays possible. We can make it so that users need to log in and sign a license, if you want (See https://lindat.mff.cuni.cz/repository/xmlui/page/item-lifecycle#restricted-submissions). If you need more than the fact they logged in via an university (or similar) account, we can even ask for some specific attributes, very much like standard web forms. This makes sense mostly for data with "no redistribution" clause in their license.