Additional information and documentation
Data Management Plan
The WASCAL Data Management Plan aims to
describe the approaches necessary to implement a WASCAL data
management infrastructure. It concerns the management of data and
data products to be created by the Core Research Program, the
Graduate Program and the research teams in the Competence Center.
The data will be hosted and managed at the Competence Center. The
plan acts as an agreement between data users and data
providers/creators in the framework of WASCAL, on how to use, store,
disseminate and publish data generated by the project. The target
audience for this plan is all project members, in particular
scientists from German and African research institutions as well as
partner organizations providing and using data and data products.
The Plan also provides a basis for the overall planning and
development of the central WASCAL data management by:
- providing information that can be used to coordinate
communication activities and stakeholder relations across WASCAL
- highlighting data management and custody issues at an
early stage so that data is managed in a way that meets the
requirements of the WASCAL project manage-ment, and enables the
Project to respond to common data needs
- providing a basis for quality assurance within the
project
- providing a basis from which WASCAL project partners and
the project management can report and monitor project and overall
WASCAL project progress.
A draft of the datamanagement plan can be downloaded here
WASCAL Data Policy
The WASCAL Data Policy outlines the principles adopted by WASCAL regarding its data policy.
The detailed implementation of these principles is further described in the Data Management Plan.
The data rights statement in this document provides general directives and rules on how to share,
re-use and cite all research data in order to
- Ease collaboration among the participants to WASCAL
- Ensure timely submission of data for the use within the consortium
- Protect the researchers’ intellectual property rights and rights to publish their results
- Provide rules for use of the data within the consortium and by third parties
- Build an homogeneous body of valuable scientific information on results observed within WASCAL
- Provide the broader scientific community with an easy access to integrated knowledge created by WASCAL
- Enhance access of WASCAL to data derived from the use of WASCAL data
