SSRL Users are responsible for meeting the Data Management obligations of their home institutions and granting agencies. In general, SSRL provides data acquisition systems (computers/software) and short term data storage on all of its beam lines. The beam line computers are connected to central servers via a high speed network, and data are transferred to these servers for backup and short-term storage. SSRL does not provide long term storage or archiving of data; users must generally transfer their data to their home institutions over the network or to their own portable storage devices.
Individual beam lines may have specific resources and data management practices to help users meet their data management needs and obligations. Users should consult beam line staff when formulating data management plans and strategies.
User Data: Access and Retention Policy
- Purpose
The purpose of this policy is to define the access to user experimental data from offsite and the retention period for these data. - Scope
This policy applies to user experimental data collected on the SSRL experimental stations and stored on SSRL’s file servers. - Policy
- User responsibility
Users are responsible for their data. Users are also responsible for copying all data before leaving SSRL, to removable media or via network. - SSRL responsibility
SSRL provides the infrastructure to collect data on the experimental stations. These data are stored on SSRL file servers. - Retention period
Best effort will be made to retain user data for 6 months after the experiment is over but is not guaranteed. As stated in section 3.1 users are responsible to copy all data before leaving SSRL.
- User responsibility
- Definitions
User: Any person running an experiment at SSRL and collecting experimental data. - Document History
08/9/2013 version 1.0 reviewed and accepted by SSRL senior management group on 8-23-12.