CASA Data Sharing Policy
Prior to Collection of Data
- I will inform the CASA members of all the data I intend to collect. This information will
include information on the sampling plan and the expected date the data will be available.
After Collection of Data but Before Publication
- I will share my data with other CASA investigators and members of their staff
working on CASA project. This will be done by posing a copy of the data to the casa web site.
- I will provide the data in a refined form that is as simple as practical for other people to use (i.e. not raw data that needs a lot of work before it can be used). Timescales will be treated like a
regular data set.
- I will upload my data to the web site as soon as practical after the data has been collected. This does not include data such as photos and log books which are not collected or stored in a digital form. However, when practical I will submit critical portions of such data in a digital form. While the data is only available on the restricted web site, I will not publish, present (i.e. at a workshop, seminar or meeting) or submit for publication, work that relies on
someone else's unpublished data without permission from them to do so.
- The source of all data, published or unpublished, will be acknowledged.
- I will not use other people's data in a way that is not related to the data I have collected,
unless I have specific permission from the person who collected the data. (The goal here
is to share data to help you interpret your data, not to provide a way to use other people's
data for a purpose that is unrelated to the project goals.)
- I will not give other people's data to anyone except members of my staff (i.e. students, or
close collaborators) and will only do so if I am closely working with them on the
interpretation of the data and it relates to the interpretation of my CASA data.
- If after preliminary investigations with someone else's data I believe that further work
may lead to an interesting result, I will notify the person who collected the data of my
findings and discuss with them the possibility of collaborative efforts. This will be done
as early as possible. (i.e., do not wait until you have a draft of a paper with someone's
data in it to ask them if they want to be coauthor.)