[Seavox] Data Access Policy Vocabulary

[John Graybeal]

Roy,

Nice list, I will have to figure out how MMI can keep up with all the vocabularies you're creating!

Some minor notes are below.  (I appreciate I'm not central to your project, please feel free to ignore or otherwise adjust these inputs to meet your goals.)

1) Another reason for a moratorium is pending validation (QC) of the data. Perhaps this should be explicitly added to this item, or maybe it results in a different category.

2) The phrase "However a correct value probably exists" raises the question, what if it doesn't?  Do you want an additional category "not defined" (the policy has not yet been set)?  Or maybe the phrase is not needed.

3) Splitting hairs even further, if my data is freely available to anyone but I would like acknowledgment, which of the categories 'unrestricted' and 'academic' is correct?  (I think you're combining "to whom data is made available" and "is acknowledgement required", so this is an ambiguous case.)

I note that this list conflates two concepts, cost and availability.  Ideally they would be separated.  As a practical matter it may not be important in your context.

John

At 3:37 PM +0000 11/15/06, Roy Lowry wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>Attached is a vocabulary designed to fulfil the function of the ISO19115 MD_RestrictionCode vocabulary for our more academic world. The vocabulary has been built from two sources, the SEA-SEARCH CDI (a simple subset of MD_RestrictionCode) and the EDIOS metadatabase, which has a much bigger vocabulary that I've tried to distil down (see the EDIOS sheet in the XLS file for the gory details, including the kind of  terms you get in vocabularies built without governance e.g. 'see website').
>
>What I'm trying to achieve through this vocabulary is to provide the discoverer of a dataset with a reasonably clear picture of the hoops that need to be negotiated to get hold of the dataset.  Guess its really a classification of data access policies.  Let me have any comments.
>
>Cheers, Roy.
>
>Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:SeaDataNet_Vocab_L081.xls (XLS4/«IC») (0159338E)
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