Background
The goals and principles of making biodiversity data available have been defined in the Information Sharing Agreement signed by participating countries of the Bioversity/UNEP–GEF Project “In situ/On farm Conservation and Use of Agricultural Biodiversity (Horticultural Crops and Wild Fruit Species) in Central Asia”
The Participants who have signed the Information Agreement have expressed their willingness to make biodiversity data available through their nodes to foster scientific research development internationally and to support the public use of these data.
CentralAsia Portal data sharing should take place within a framework of due attribution.
Therefore, using data available through the CentralAsia Portal requires agreeing with the following:
1. Data Use Agreements
- The quality and completeness of data cannot be guaranteed. Users employ these data at their own risk.
- Users shall respect restrictions of access to sensitive data.
- In order to make attribution of use for owners of the data possible, the identifier of ownership of data must be retained with every data record.
- Users must publicly acknowledge, in conjunction with the use of the data, the data publishers whose biodiversity data they have used. Data publishers may require additional attribution of specific collections within their institution.
- Users must comply with additional terms and conditions of use set by the data publisher. Where these exist they will be available through the metadata associated with the data.
2. Citing Data
Use the following format to cite data retrieved from the Centralasia Portal:
Biodiversity occurrence data published by: (Accessed through CentralAsia Portal, Centralasia.bioversity.asia, YYYY-MM-DD)
3. Definitions
- CentralAsia Portal Participant: Signatory of the Information sharing agreement.
- Making User: Anyone who uses the Internet to access data through the Centralasia Portal.
- Owner of data: The legal entity possessing the right resulting from the act of creating a digital record. The record may be a product derived from another, possibly non-digital product, which may affect the right.
- Restricted data: Any data that the Node does not want to make available, e.g. precise localities of varieties. The portal provides information access at 3 levels;
- 1. Open Access Information: information published on the Website and publicly available to the general public.
- 2. Restricted Access Information: information made available to non Project partners upon permission from the party that provided the Information.
- 3. Absolute Restricted Access Information: information will be made available to Project partners and the general public upon permission from the party that provided the information.