Data Archiving and Retrieval Services
Summary of Biology Department Comments

1. Archiving Services: On line access for 5 years; then archive at a Federal Facility, possibly the funding agency

2. Data Retrieval Services: Recent: Internet access; Later stuff placed on CD ROM or other electronic storage medium?

3. Policy: We'll probably need flexibility.

4. Some data ... will be easier to archive and be used more often than other types.

5. Archiving Services: Yes, [keep] at WHOI. [A] National [archive] is worth considering as long as WHOI researchers have priority and guaranteed access.

6. Data Retrieval Services: Imperative that there be controls over the image quality of archived and retrieved distribution. Also, there needs to be some way of guaranteeing acknowledgement of the data source. Lastly, there needs to be some way of limiting access to data by qualified researchers for some material. The latter may be a rare case, but is worth considering.

7. Policy: What's a metadata file?

8. Policy: Change the sentence
   • The time-schedule for deposit of data with the WHOI Archives is the same as that required by the agency funding the research, or as otherwise agreed with the Principal Investigator.
   to
   • The time-schedule for deposit of data with the WHOI Archives is the same as that required by the agency funding the research, or as otherwise specified by the Principal Investigator.

9. I've never sent my data to a national data center. ... I suppose I should, but my records are so short and so limited spatially that I didn't think they would be of much use to others.

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   Last modified: December 16, 1997