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Ethical and Legal Guidelines for Data Scientists

2026-10-08
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It is vital for data scientists to acknowledge and cope with the Ethical, Legal and Societal Aspects (ELSA) encountered in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence projects. Within the NFDI4DataScience framework, one way to address this challenge is to develop ELSA guidelines for data scientists.

We assessed the landscape by interviewing researchers and practitioners in the field to identify and analyse the most common ELSA challenges encountered in DS/AI projects and how to cope with them.

The Guidelines are complemented by a Checklist that helps the Data Scientist review their project via a series of questions corresponding to the before/during/after project phases.

Find the publication at our zenodo community: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23034436