Table 3.

Steps for Accessing, Sharing, and Reusing Data and Materials on Databrary

Use and step	Description
Preresearch or educational use
Register	All users must create an account at http://databrary.org/register.
Secure authorization	PIs request authorization from an institution; students, lab staff, and postdoctoral researchers can request authorization from an authorized PI.
Browse data or materials	Following authorization, users can stream or download data for nonresearch, preresearch, or educational uses; approval of an IRB or other ethics board is not required at most institutions.
Sharing self-collected data
Seek IRB or ethics-board approval	The research team must obtain permission from an IRB or other ethics board to collect personally identifiable video data and share it with Databrary.
Seek participants’ permission to share	Using Databrary’s release template or equivalent language, the team must document each participant’s level of permission to share data (see Table 4).
Upload data to Databrary	Videos and project-, session-, and participant-level metadata can be uploaded while a study is in progress or after completion of the study. Links to files at external resources (Open Science Framework, GitHub, OpenNeuro, etc.) can be added.
Share data	When the research team chooses (e.g., a report is published or at the end of the grant period), the team can share the volume, granting other researchers (other Databrary investigators or the public) access to the files.
Accessing shared data to conduct research
Register	All users must create an account at http://databrary.org/register.
Secure authorization	PIs request authorization from an institution; students, lab staff, and postdoctoral researchers can request authorization from an authorized PI.
Seek IRB or ethics-board approval	The research team must obtain permission from an IRB or other ethics board to reuse personally identifiable data.
Download data	The team can search for and filter shared data according to the task or participant characteristics of interest and then download the data for analysis.
Share the reanalyzed data	The team can upload any new data and add links to external resources (Open Science Framework, GitHub, OpenNeuro, etc.) and Databrary data sets that were used.

Note: IRB = institutional review board; PI = principal investigator.