VOCALS DATA POLICY - DRAFT
VOCALS DATA POLICY - DRAFT
- All investigators participating in VOCALS must agree to promptly submit
their processed data to the VOCALS Archive to facilitate intercomparison of
results, quality control checks and inter-calibrations, and an integrated
interpretation of the combined data set.
- All data shall be promptly provided to other VOCALS investigators upon
request. A list of VOCALS investigators will be maintained by the VAMOS/ VOCALS
Team and will include the principal investigators directly participating
in the field experiment and the modelers who have provided guidance in the
planning of VOCALS activities.
- During the initial data analysis period (one year after the data were
collected), no data may be provided to a third party (journal articles,
presentations, research proposals, other investigators) without the consent of
the investigator who collected the data. This initial analysis period is
designed to provide an opportunity to adequately quality control the combined
data set.
- It is the intent of the VAMOS/ VOCALS team that all data will be
considered public domain one year following the end of the VOCALS field
experiment and that any use of the data will include either acknowledgment or
co-authorship at the discretion of the investigator who collected the data.