[obs-tap] Data Rights

[Petr Skoda]

Hi,

I have checked the SDM v 1.1 and I see conflict in Curation.rights in 
ObsTAP ( Public/Reserved/Proprietary)  and SDM 1.1 (table 1 - page 19 ?
) where it is Curation.Rights (public,proprietary, mixed)

And in ObsTAP section B4 (data_rights) it is written
PUBLIC,PROTECTED,PROPRIETARY - referring to SDM

In any case there is no explanation what does it mean  (neither in SDM)

what is Reserved?
what is Mixed?
what is PROTECTED ?

in addition - taking obsTAP B.5. (release date)

what is  said - the time stamp is here to distiguish public and private 
observation - tells when product will be available.

first

1) the format YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss is not ISO 8601 but a restricted 
representation of ISO - and the same hold what I said earlier about SSAP
(e.g. we should force the "T" instead of space, following rather the 
limits of RFC  3339.


second

The nature of proprietary data can be different -
some are kept secret for ever as the observatory is private (e.g. Keck)
The government-funded data shoudl be published after some time so they 
will become public. But some organizations may have strict policy on 
proprietary period (e.g. 1 year and then the data may be released) some
may decide aftetr some push ;-) to release certain data (when no one from 
the original PI's has interested in them) etc ...

And some may publish high-level product (measurements ... derived 
parameters like log g, Teff ....spectral class...) but not the original 
level 2 data or even the level 0.

How to describe the rights, various *did* (obs_publisher_id), data level 
etc .... to get the idea hwat I can get now ?

the question as well is what the service should return for data propietary 
data -  As I remember soem discussion ago the recommnedation was to 
publish all metadata but not the contents (i.e. what we want to do in 
Access format and access reference....

Simply I think its a sensitive problem desiring more detailed explanation 
in obsTAP . (in addition to correcting the discrepancies with SDM)


Petr
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