The dataset era

Before today’s public-goods portfolio, EthicsNet explored participatory methods for teaching social and ethical context through examples.

Participatory ethics datasets

Earlier EthicsNet work explored how people from different cultures and perspectives might contribute examples of prosocial and antisocial behaviour for research into machine values.

The programme included a browser extension for annotating examples encountered online and a legacy ethical-dilemma tool inspired by structured ethical deliberation. The stated goal was to release useful compiled material for research and cultural understanding.

Why this belongs in the record

The dataset era established themes that remain visible in current work: plural values, social context, participatory ethics, generalisation beyond rigid rules, and public release. Current EthicsNet projects use different technical approaches and should not be represented as a continuation of the old data-collection service.

Archive context: this page documents a past programme. It does not invite new annotations, represent the old browser extension as supported, or claim that historical datasets remain available.

Historical source

This summary preserves the substance of the former indexed `/datasets` page, last available through historical web archives. The old page described an annotation extension and a legacy dilemma prototype.

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