Data policies
The purpose of this directive is to ensure that environmental data funded extramurally by NOAA are made publicly accessible in a timely fashion (typically within two years of collection), and that final manuscripts of peer-reviewed research papers are deposited with the NOAA Central Library. The Directive requires that funding opportunity announcements include Data Management Guidance, and relevant proposals include a Data Management Plan, and Special Award Conditions (reviewed by DoC Office of General Counsel) be included in funded awards. To allow for special cases, NOAA Programs are given some leeway in exactly how, when, or whether grantee data are made publicly available. Data Sharing Directive for NOAA Grants, Cooperative Agreements, and Contracts
A data management scoping proposal by Robin Brown
ICES SGMID Report 2005 ICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON ECOSYSTEMS ACE:03 Report of the Study Group on Management of Integrated Data (SGMID) 11-13 April 2005 Lisbon, Portugal http://www.ices.dk/sites/pub/CM%20Doccuments/2005/ACE/ACE0305.pdf
NOAA Data Sharing Policy for Grants and Cooperative Agreements Procedural Directive
Report of the Study Group on Management of Integrated Data (SGMID)
A data management plan is a formal document outlining how research data will be managed, stored, documented and secured throughout a research project as well as planning for what will happen to the data after completion of the project. The data management plan is intended to provide descriptive details of the data, the processes, the decisions, as well as identifying roles and responsibilities. This also includes a long-term data sharing and preservation plan to ensure data are publicly accessible beyond the life of the project. A data management plan is often a requirement of funding agencies.
The IODE encourages all researchers to prepare a data management plan for research projects that will collect marine data and to ensure the data generated by research projects be permanently archived in the IODE network of National Oceanographic Data Centres (NODCs). IOC Guidelines for a Data Management Plan