EPIC DATA POLICY - DRAFT
EPIC DATA POLICY - DRAFT
These proposed EPIC Data Protocols
will be discussed at the March 2002 EPIC meeting to be held in
Seattle, Washington where they will be finalized in accordance with
guidelines provided by NSF, NOAA, and PACS/CLIVAR.
- All investigators participating in EPIC must agree to promptly submit
their processed data to the EPIC 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 EPIC investigators upon
request. A list of EPIC investigators will be maintained by the JOSS EPIC
Team and will include the principle investigators directly participating
in the field experiment and the modelers who have provided guidance in the
planning of EPIC 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 JOSS EPIC team that all data will be
considered public domain one year following the end of the EPIC 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.