Data Providers Policy

Any data provider can promote its data repository by registering it in the D4ScienceAn e-Infrastructure operated by the D4Science.org initiative. Ecosystem.

• By registering a data repository, the data provider guarantees access to the data stored without any limitation on volume or number of access calls.

• A data provider is empowered to limit the access to its data to either a single community or to a single group of people operating in a community. D4ScienceAn e-Infrastructure operated by the D4Science.org initiative. Ecosystem uses proven cryptographic methods to authenticate users. The data will be only available to either the community or a group within a community explicitly authorized by the data provider.

• Any authorized user can use the data in any circumstance and for all usage, reproduce the data, modify the data, and make derivative data based upon the original data, communicate to the public, including the right to reproduce or display the data or copies thereof to the public and perform publicly, as the case may be, the data.

• Any authorized user cannot in any circumstance and for any usage redistribute the data or copies thereof, lend and rent the data or copies thereof, sub-license rights in the data or copies thereof.

• At any time the data provider can decide either to unregister its data repository or to suspend temporarily the access to it. All data provider’s requests are immediately accepted and operated by the D4ScienceAn e-Infrastructure operated by the D4Science.org initiative. Ecosystem.

• The ownership of the data remains exclusively to the data provider. D4ScienceAn e-Infrastructure operated by the D4Science.org initiative. Ecosystem will not otherwise copy, move or distribute data provider's data for any purpose, except when required to do so by law.

• The data provider is solely responsible for the development, content, operation, and maintenance of the data. In particular, the data provider is solely responsible for the compliance of data with the law, with any claims relating to the data, and any violation with respect person’s rights.

• The registration of a data repository to the D4ScienceAn e-Infrastructure operated by the D4Science.org initiative. Ecosystem is simple and secure. Several technologies - relational databases, columns stores, document repositories, geographical information systems - and protocols are currently supported.

To register a data provider is needed to contact d4science info . A personal assistant will be assigned to follow the entire registration process. The procedure is not expected to take more than three working days.