Welcome to the Competence Center in Digital Law
We support Swiss Higher Education Institutions (students, academic and administrative staff) in dealing with legal questions related to the digitalization process and the use of new media and technologies.
DMLawTool
DMLawTool guides researchers through the most relevant legal aspects of research data management and proposes possible solution approaches to copyright and data protection issues. It has been developed by Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in collaboration with University of Neuchâtel (UNINE) within the P-5 programme "Scientific information" of swissuniversities. More detailed information about the tool can be found here. To access the tool, use the button below.
Ethics in Visual Social Research
CodeVis is a platform wich provides a user-friendly model for open data practices in visual social research. Drawing on the Recommendations for open data practices in visual social research, it guides you through practical, context-sensitive decisions to be considered at each stage of the research process, from the conceptual phase to data reuse.
Codevis.org was developed by Università della Svizzera italiana within the project ODSS-PROV – Open Data, Shared Standards: Promoting Adequate Open Data Practices in Visual Social Research funded by swissuniversities.
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Data Management Plans for Language Data Workshop, legal and ethical perspectives
29.06.2026 Slides (English) Workshop organised by CLARIN-CH as part of the Language Data Across Disciplines (LaDaD) project funded by swissuniversities. Here are available the slides covering the legal and ethical aspects of DMPs for language data. Slides
29.05.2026 – Visual Data and Open Science: Friends or Foes?
Have you heard about https://codevis.org/, a new platform for managing visual data as open research data (OER)? It helps researchers work with visual materials in a responsible way, taking into account ethical, legal, and contextual sensitivities, while supporting...