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How licensing works

For labs: from a request or a catalogue listing to a signed licence and a delivered dataset.

Updated 15 Oct 2026

There are two ways in: license a dataset that's already in the catalogue, or post a request and have Quarry source it. Both end the same way, with a signed licence and a delivery you can verify.

From the catalogue

Every licensable dataset has a deal sheet with a stable ID (for example QD-7K2P). Its status moves along one rail:

non-exclusive: back to Listed after each licenceListedSample readyUnder NDALicensed
  1. ListedOn the catalogue with its deal sheet.
  2. Sample readyA de-identified sample is prepared and approved by the owner.
  3. Under NDAA lab accepted the sample NDA and is evaluating.
  4. LicensedA licence is signed; delivery follows.
  1. Browse. Filter by vertical, data type, language, domain, geography, size and years covered.
  2. Request a sample. Accept the click-through sample NDA, and an expiring download link follows once your account is verified.
  3. License. Choose exclusive or non-exclusive, term, territory and permitted use. Commercials are on the deal sheet as a price band or "on request".
  4. Receive. Delivery to your storage with the datasheet, manifest and de-identification report.

By request

When it isn't in the catalogue, scope it with us:

  1. 01ScopeWe write the spec with your research team: modality, volume, quality bar, exclusivity.
  2. 02SourceWe find the owners who hold it and negotiate the licence.
  3. 03ClearRights, consent and PII checks; deduplication against the public web; quality scoring.
  4. 04DeliverTo your storage, with a datasheet and a per-record provenance manifest.

With your consent, an anonymised version of the request goes on the demand board. Your lab's name is never shown and volumes are rounded.

What you sign

AgreementWhenWhat it covers
Sample NDABefore a sampleConfidentiality, use only to evaluate, deletion after evaluation, no contact with the owner outside Quarry
Data licensing termsBefore deliveryLicence grant, permitted use, no redistribution, no re-identification or linkage, deletion duties
Data Processing AddendumWhere personal data could be in scopeRoles, security measures, breach notice, deletion

The full texts are under Legal. See also Licence types and the permitted-use matrix.