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

  1. 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.
  2. Whilst the data are restricted from the public domain, no data should be transferred to a third party without the originator's consent.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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."
  6. 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.