SP -- DATA MANAGEMENT POLICY FOR ITS EARTH SCIENCE ENTERPRISE >NASA has just published on the Internet (see >>>http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/ese/whats_news/datapolicy.ht ml) a proposed >>>statement on data management policy for its Earth Science Enterprise. The >>>Statement enunciates a set of basic principles to guide data management >>>policy for the Enterprise, together with an explanation of each principle. >>>The Statement was created to help ensure compliance with appropriate legal >>>authorities as well as consistency of data management practices across the >>>Enterprise. With NASA's increasing involvement in new and innovative >>>arrangements with external partners, providers, and customers, how >>>scientific data from these arrangements will be used, shared, duplicated, >>>distributed, and archived has become a central issue in planning and >>>negotiations. >>> >>>The Statement does not state new data policies or practices, but rather >>>embodies the major legal and policy guidance which the Earth Science >>>Enterprise already follows, including the Office of Science and Technology >>>Policy's 1991 Statements on Data Management for Global Change Research >>>(commonly known as the "Bromley Principles") and the Land Remote Sensing >>>Policy Act of 1992. Comments should be addressed to Louis Whitsett (NASA >>>HQ, Code YO) -- Internet address: lwhitset @hq.nasa.gov/ Phone: >>>202-358-4767/ FAX: 202-358-3094. >>> >>> WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/HQ/date.html#10-00002. E-MAIL: Louis Whitsett, lwhitsett@hq.nasa.gov. Posted 10/22/98 (D-SN264646).

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