Published November 21, 2025 | Version v4

MoveD - Open Research Data Guidelines for Movement Laboratories

  • 1. University of Geneva
  • 2. Universitäts-Kinderspital beider Basel
  • 3. ROR icon Ostschweizer Kinderspital
  • 4. ROR icon Bern University of Applied Sciences
  • 5. ROR icon University Children's Hospital Zurich
  • 6. Lake Lucerne Institute
  • 7. ROR icon ETH Zurich
  • 8. ROR icon Cereneo
  • 9. ROR icon University of Zurich
  • 10. ROR icon Universitätsklinik Balgrist
  • 11. Schulthess-Klinik
  • 12. ROR icon University of Basel

Description

These guidelines are structured along the data life cycle. They aim to guide the staff of a movement laboratory when they want to share data publicly. These guidelines address all the necessary steps that have to be performed from planning a study up to the point where data can be published; they include ethical and legal considerations as well as data structuring processes. Please select a document with a specified phase of the data life cycle, you will then be shown all the information that has to be considered in this particular project phase.

The legal framework regarding research with human beings differs in each country. As this guideline is intended to be directly applicable to Switzerland, only Swiss laws and regulations are presented. The content of these guidelines can, however, be adjusted to other countries by taking their legal framework into consideration. The user is free to do this. We do not, however, assume any responsibility regarding the interpretation of the legal text or templates for informed consent. The final decision lies with the local ethics committee.

Further resources, as checklists, metadata template generator, and example of shared data with metadata, can be found in the Zenodo Community Open Research Data Guidelines for Movement Laboratories.

Notes

We kindly thank all the members of our sounding board

  • Balgrist Campus - Movement Analysis, Linard Filli
  • Berner Fachhochschule - Bern Movement Lab, Patric Eichelberger
  • Bewegungsanalyse Zürich, Britta Krautwurst
  • ETH Zurich - Movement Lab, Deepak Ravi
  • Hôspitaux Universitaires de Génève - Laboratoire de Cinesiologie, Stéphane Armand
  • Lake Lucerne Institute, Chris Awai & Christoph Bauer
  • Ostschweizer Kinderspitäler - Ganglabor, Nathalie Alexander
  • Kinder Reha Schweiz - Bewegungsanalyse, Huub van Hedel
  • Schulthess Klinik - Human Performance Lab, Renate List
  • Universitätsspital Kinder beider Basel UKBB, Morgan Sangeux
  • Universitätsspital Basel - Biomechanik, Corina Nüesch

Table of contents (English)

Terminology:

  • FAIR principles
  • Open data
  • Metadata
  • Data processing vs. Data analysis
  • Movement data
  • Anonymized vs. encoded data

Plan / Design:

  • Considerations when planning a project

Collect:

  • Metadata
  • Marker model
  • Informed consent with reference to data sharing

Process:

  • Metadata
  • Source code
  • Description of source code / readme file
  • Open file format

Analyze:

  • Metadata
  • Source code, if applicable
  • Description of source code / readme file, if applicable

Archiving:

  • Legal requirements
  • Key management
  • Data access

Share (open access):

  • Licences
  • Informed consent
  • Choosing a repository to publish data
  • Metadata
  • Data

Reuse:

  • Search for reuse
  • Example repositories for movement data
  • Quality check 

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Additional details

Related works

Is described by
Data paper: 10.1016/j.dib.2025.111884 (DOI)

Funding

Swissuniversities
ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences