Policy Statements on Data Management for Global Change Research

Authors

  • Bromley D Allan

Keywords:

Data managment, global Change, Open Access, United States, International Relation.

Abstract

This document is the final version of the “Data Management for Global Change Research Policy Statements” of United States.  This, along with its descriptive Annex, has been reviewed in depth and agreed to by each of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology agencies through the Office of Management and Budget Legislative Referral process in 1991. The overall purpose of these policy statement is to facilitate full and open access and use with confidence, both now and in the future, of the data and information that is used in and results from global change assessment activities of US. It  reflect the goals and policies of the U.S. Global Change Research Program and incorporate federal laws, directives, and regulations regarding the maintenance and dissemination of data and information in the Federal Government. They are recommended for all participants in the National Assessment Program, including federal, state, local, tribal, foreign, educational, non-government organizations and their private partners. It  represent the U.S. Government’s position on the access to global change research data.

Author Biography

  • Bromley D Allan
    Allan Bromley, D. (1926- 2005), Canadian-born American physicist.  Was the founder and director (1963-89) of Yale University’s A.W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, where he research in heavy ion physics, and was nationally known as the most influential science adviser in U.S. history as the architect (1989-93) of President George Bush’s science and technology policy. Bromley was an early advocate of the so-called data superhighway (the Internet) and was instrumental in securing funds for scientific research to keep American manufacturing from falling behind that of Japan and Germany. In his worldwide travels, he gave more than 400 speeches expounding on U.S. science policy. He wrote more than 500 scientific papers and wrote or contributed to more than 20 books. In 1988 Bromley was the recipient of the National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest scientific award.

References

Bromley, Allan (1991). Policy Statements on Data Management for Global Change Research, text, July 2, 1991; Washington, D.C.. (http://www.gcrio.org/USGCRP/DataPolicy.html )

Published

2018-01-19

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 4 (2017): Informatics Studies

Section

Articles

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