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The RAPID Data Management Plan describes the data management for the RAPID programme and the data policy drawn up by the Steering Committee. The primary aim of the RAPID data policy is to enable access to RAPID data and maximise the exploitation of the results.
Data management
The NERC Data Policy requires that all data are lodged with the appropriate NERC Designated Data Centre. In the context of RAPID these are the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) and the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC). Funds have been made available from the RAPID budget to support this activity. In the absence of a NERC designated data centre for palaeo data, special provision have been made for such data acquired within the programme (while ensuring appropriate links to international projects, such as HOLIVAR). Details of this are given in the full
RAPID Data Management Plan.
Submission of and access to data is through a common ÔportalÕ - the
RAPID Data Centre (RDC).
The data sub-group appointed by the Steering Committee is responsible for working with the Science Coordinator to ensure proper data management.
RAPID data policy
The following data policy has been ratified by the full Steering Committee and will apply to all projects funded through RAPID:
- data should be lodged with the appropriate data centre on acquisition*, together with such metadata as are defined under the
RAPID Data Management Plan.
- data would be embargoed for 1 year from acquisition, allowing the PI and co-workers to exploit it in the first instance. Metadata should not be embargoed, to allow the wider community to be aware of work being carried out under RAPID and facilitate community building.
- data should be made available to the RAPID community after 1 year, and to everyone after 2 years.
- anyone making use of RAPID data within 3 years of it being lodged at the data centre would be required to include the PI and/or co-workers (as appropriate) as co-author/s on any resulting papers.
- PIs and/or co-workers failing to comply with the RAPID data policy would be subject to appropriate sanctions.
[n.b. Data includes palaeo data, present-day observations, model output, data syntheses, data-model syntheses.]
* On acquisition: the time-scale may vary between data types (for example, real-time data could go directly to a data centre) but the overall aim is to keep the time-scale as short as possible and certainly less than 6 months. This is to ensure that data acquired during RAPID are available to the RAPID community within the lifetime of the programme.
Data subgroup membership
RAPID Steering Committee: K. Briffa, P. Challenor, S. Tett
Science coordinators: M. Srokosz, V. Byfield
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