Ecosystem Approach Community of Practice: iMarine Policies
Data Access and Sharing Policies
The iMarine Board will develop policy documents that are the instruments to implement the Governance Model. Developing an advanced version of these policies thus requires a good understanding of what the Governance model will eventually be. Until the Board has decided on the Governance Model for the e-InfrastructureAn operational combination of digital technologies (hardware and software), resources (data and services), communications (protocols, access rights and networks), and the people and organizational structures needed to support research efforts and collaboration in the large., both the Data Access and Sharing Policies and the Software Policies can not be finalized.
A final draft of these policy documents has to be delivered at the end of the project for review and hopefully endorsement by the participating institutions. Towards this goal, the development of the policies will proceed iteratively, with the most obvious points being fixed after one year, then progressively consolidated at each iMarine Board meeting.
The paragraphs below describe how the policies are inventoried, defined, and implemented.
The inventory phase, which is likely to last until Q4 2012, will collect relevant information from the Board, and 2 officers are responsible to report their findings to the iMarine Board. Along with this inventory phase, the effort will also be to develop a "end-year1 draft" striving to align the rules set at D4ScienceAn e-Infrastructure operated by the D4Science.org initiative. infrastructure level with obvious expectations of the community. A parallel document will identify the likely gaps emerging from the inventory and the alignment exercise. Their reports to the Board will be included.
Beyond "end-year1 draft", the more advanced definition phase will commence while a better appraisal of the Governance Model's shape will be acquired, and the policies will specifically implement the Governance Model. This implies that their scope is to implement EA-CoPCommunity of Practice. relevant policies, and not the design and development of the e-InfrastructureAn operational combination of digital technologies (hardware and software), resources (data and services), communications (protocols, access rights and networks), and the people and organizational structures needed to support research efforts and collaboration in the large. itself.
The implementation phase will commence once requests for active use of the e-InfrastructureAn operational combination of digital technologies (hardware and software), resources (data and services), communications (protocols, access rights and networks), and the people and organizational structures needed to support research efforts and collaboration in the large. are accepted, and a structure is in place to negotiate the collaboration, and monitor the use of the e-InfrastructureAn operational combination of digital technologies (hardware and software), resources (data and services), communications (protocols, access rights and networks), and the people and organizational structures needed to support research efforts and collaboration in the large..
