•National,
regional & global perspectives
•Cultural ownership of data & preference for use
•Human data privacy & confidentiality
•Environmental data privacy & security
•Intellectual property: protection, limits & exceptions
•Public vs. private data
•Incentives and dis-incentives for managing archive deposits
•National security
•Institutional roles and policies
•Enabling legislation & controlling authorities
•Freedom of information
•policies, regulations & practices
•access authorization
•Financing and cost recovery policies
•economies of scale
•unfunded mandates
•Rationale for data archiving
•pure research needs
•cultural, economic & political needs
•Policy enforcement mechanisms
•Data rights
•redistribution
•transformation
•derivative product rights