Cape Verde Observatory
Data Protocol
Access to all data submitted to the data centre will be restricted to Cape
Verde Observatory participants for
one year following the archival date, after which they will be released
into the public domain. During the embargo period, access may be extended to
external collaborators who have been authorised by the Katie Read or their delegated authority. Potential
users of the archive will be required to agree to the Conditions of Use.
Conditions of use
- Access to all data
submitted to the BADC will be restricted to Cape Verde Observatory
participants for one year
following the archival date, after which they will be released into
the public domain.
- Whilst the data are
restricted from the public domain, no data should be transferred to a
third party without the originator's consent.
- Whilst the data are
restricted from the public domain, all investigators have the right to
refuse that their work, whether measurement or calculation, be used in a
publication or presentation prior to the investigators' own publication of
that work.
- If measurements or model
results from other groups within the programme are used in a Cape Verde
Observatory participant's publication during or after the programme, joint
authorship must be offered.
- In all cases where the data
are used in a presentation or publication, an acknowledgement must be
given: for example, "Data from Cape Verde Observatory are provided
via BADC."
- Information submitted in
application for access to the data will be made available to the Natural
Environment Research Council (NERC) and its delegated authorities, i.e.
the NERC Earth Observation Data Centre and the British Atmospheric Data
Centre (BADC) and their host organisation, the Science and Technology
Facilities Council (STFC) for
the purposes of tracking data usage and of improving the service.