ATTACHMENT
6.
The Principles for Creation and
Procedures for Future Utilization of the Caspian Sea Mnemiopsis Data Base
(Caspian Environment Programme)
1) The Joint Caspian Sea Mnemiopsis Data
Base (JMDB), created under umbrella of the Caspian Environment Programme (CEP), referred
to herein is the data base that includes all the data provided by the Individual Sources
of data (ISD).
2) The Individual Source of data (ISD) is
identified as the Data Contributing Partner Institution (DCPI) or individual scientist.
Individual scientists working in a staff of the DCPI will be identified as sub-sources of
data only if they are identified as such by their own institution.
3) The DCPIs are: Caspian Environment
Programme, etc. /for example, Caspian Fisheries Research Institute/.
4) The Data Base Executive Committee of the
JMDB is formed by the Official representatives of the DCPIs and individual scientists
signed this document. JMDB will be delivered to them in its entirety after submission of
their own Mnemiopsis data sets.
5) JMDB will include proper and full
acknowledgment of the Sources of data for all included data.
6) The DBMS will be updated and maintained
by the Data and Information Management group of the CEP PCU. After the lifetime of the
CEP, the Data Base Executive Committee will determine an institution or group of
scientists responsible for this task
7) The first version of the JMDB will be
finalized and passed to all ISD in February 2002, if data are submitted by all ISD in
January 2002.
8) New versions of the JMDB will be
distributed to the ISD depending on the new data submission but not rarely than every
three months.
9) Technical reports describing the data
loaded into the JMDB will be prepared / published under the authorship of the individual
Sources / sub-sources along with each new version of the JMDB. The objective of such
publications is to help the ISD and potential users of the JMDB to assess the amount and
quality of the data available.
10) Data transferred to the JMDB by any ISD
remain the property of this ISD and cannot be used by other ISD for any purpose
(publication, report, presentation, creation of distribution maps, averaged data sets,
etc.) without written permission of the data owner. Upon receiving of the permission, data
can be used only with proper and full acknowledgment of the source of data. As a rule, the
publications should be done in a co-authorship.
11) At the first stage, the JMDB will
include only Mnemiopsis data processed according to the unified method and main
oceanographic variables (e.g., temperature, Secchi disk depth). At the next stages, the
number of variables can be extended.
12) Requests for full JMDB external to the
ISD are subject to the approval by all ISD.
13) Any changes to this document can be
made only with the approval by all ISD.
14) New ISD can be included in this
agreement only at approval by all already included ISD.
Signatures:
V. Vladymyrov /Scientific Liaison and
Information Management Officer, Caspian Environment Programme/
Official representative, AzerNIRKH
Official representative, IFRO
Official representative, KaspNIRKH
Official representative, organization 4
Official representative, organization 5
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Scientist 1,
Scientist 2
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