About

The Alliance for Responsible Data Collection (ARDC) is an inter-industry coalition dedicated to advancing standards for responsible data collection and governance. ARDC’s mission is to provide universal data collection guidelines that enhance transparency, accountability, and trust among data collectors, organizations, and the public. By fostering collaboration among businesses, non-profits, and academic institutions, ARDC aims to preserve open access to public web data by aligning best practices for automated data collection in today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape.

ARDC’s work encompasses the development of web scraping and crawling guidelines and technical standards, as well as the implementation of data governance frameworks, designed to foster responsible innovation. These efforts ensure organizations of all sizes can access and utilize public web data without compromising responsible practices or creating barriers to entry. ARDC’s commitment to access to knowledge and promoting responsible data use ensures a fair and open ecosystem for all stakeholders.

FAQ

The mission of the Alliance for Responsible Data Collection is to preserve access to public internet data by providing a trusted framework for responsible data collection.

ARDC’s steering committee includes:
Bright Data, Authors Alliance, Norton Law, Sequentum, Hidden Layer, and Common Crawl

  1. Standards and Guidelines
    Providing data collectors guidance on best practices for public internet data collection. Offering data users reliable means to assess the responsible sourcing of data. Educating members on emerging legal, regulatory, and industry trends.
  2. Advocacy
    Amplifying the collective voice of diverse stakeholders representing a wide range of public data usage models. Educating policy makers, regulators and government agencies on industry best practices for data collection governance and compliance.
  3. Events
    ARDC’s members are actively engaged in events, roundtable discussions, conferences, and workshops leading topics of crucial issues such as ethical data collection, standards and guidelines for responsible data collection, data governance and many more.

ARDC’s members include a cross-section of industry leaders, scholars, and thought leaders from businesses, non-profit organizations, academia, technology providers, and data users who are involved in public web data collection and utilization.

  • Promote responsible behavior among data collectors.
  • Enhance transparency and accountability
  • Create a flexible and adaptive framework
  • Provide a means for data users to identify responsibility sourced data sets.
  • Prevent overly broad regulations that may impede legitimate uses of scraped data.
  • Prevent public data monopolization.

To join and learn more about ARDC membership, please submit the following form here
Once submitted, a representative of ARDC will contact you to provide more information about the membership.

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