Public dataset
A dataset whose owner has turned on public visibility. Gets a canonical URL and a license; some surfaces open up, others stay login-gated.
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A dataset whose owner has toggled public visibility. Public datasets
get a canonical URL at /datasets/<handle>/<slug>, a license, and a
listing in the public directory. Readers can access the
dataset note, document list, clusters, the
fragment neighbourhood, and the versions list without logging in.
Search and individual-document review stay login-gated to keep bots
and crawlers from triggering expensive analysis traffic.
Why it matters for your research. Public datasets are the lightweight way to share a DH corpus with collaborators and readers while keeping the interactive analysis surfaces behind an account — you share the artefact, not a login.
In Archēglyph. Toggled from the dataset settings; the public/ private status is part of the dataset’s metadata, not its bundle. A dataset can be flipped back to private without re-running any analysis.
Not to be confused with. “Open data” is a legal/licensing claim; “public dataset” is a visibility toggle in our UI. The two overlap — a public dataset should carry an appropriate license — but they are not synonyms.