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LOTRED-South America
data security, policy and procedures
"The IGBP places high priority on establishment, maintenance, validation, description, accessibility, and distribution of high-quality, long-term global data sets, including the synthesis or generation of new global data sets," and, "Full and open sharing of the full suite of global data sets, and other data sets needed for global change studies, is the primary objective of the IGBP-DIS" (IGBP Report No. 12).
Three good reasons to contribute with your data set:
1) It is increasingly within the policy (or even a precondition) of funding agencies that supported projects make their results and data sets available. You benefit from co-authorship of important contributions, your work is cited, and your data is used.
2) The coordinators of LOTRED-SA and IGBP-PAGES officials may write letters of support for proposals, or even endorse projects for those who contribute.
3) The results of LOTRED are expected to reach a wide recognition, and it may be helpful for you and your research group if your data sets are included. Funding agencies might be interested in evaluating who contributed and which type of archives serves best for climate reconstructions.
An example: Pauling et al. 2003 (GRL) concluded that lake sediments are not among the useful proxies to reconstruct climate in Europe. The reason is simple: only one time series was made available for the reconstruction.
We are aware that contributing with sets of raw and original data to a data base may be problematic in some cases, particularly if the data set is not yet fully and extensively published. This sensitive issue will be handled with utmost care.
The data will be physically stored with the coordinators Ricardo Villalba and Martin Grosjean. They guarantee that no dataset will leave unless explicitly authorized by the provider.
Publication of work that arises from the data base will ONLY include metadata, where the individual data set and the original data are not visible.
During the course of the initiative, a plan for research and investigation, and related publications will be established. Important publications will feature the lead author (who performed the analysis and produced the metadata) and the collective of contributors to LOTRED-SA.
You will have the option to PROTECT your data or to make it accessible (preferably on the WORLD DATA CENTER WDC for PALEOCLIMATOLOGY
IGBP Rules and Regulations for Privacy apply.
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