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Constellation Terms & Conditions

Data Deposit Agreement

By depositing this Content ("Content") in Constellation, you agree that you are solely liable for any consequences of uploading this Content into Constellation, and making it publicly available, and you represent and warrant that:

  • You are either the sole creator and the owner of the copyrights and all other rights in the Content; or, if not the sole creator, you have the right to deposit, distribute and allow ORNL to distribute the dataset. Additionally, you agree that the dataset does not infringe the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of third-parties, is not defamatory, and does not violate any laws or another person's rights of privacy or publicity.
  • You agree to provide public access to your data under one of the standardized licenses identified in Constellation’s Licensing and Distribution Requirements
  • The dataset contains no restricted, private, confidential, or otherwise protected data or information that should not be publicly shared (for legal, contractual or policy reasons or otherwise), and that the submission and distribution of this dataset complies with any applicable IRB protocol.
  • The dataset is in a final state and is not subject to revisions or updates.
  • Nothing in the dataset contains any software viruses or computer codes, files, or programs capable of allowing unauthorized access or disrupting, damaging, limiting or interfering with the proper functioning of Constellation or other users' software, hardware, or telecommunications equipment.
  • The submission is a dataset and is not covered by other STI submission guidelines, and Constellation is the appropriate repository
  • If you are uploading human participant data, you will be asked to provide the consent form, information sheet, or other participant agreement, and a curator will evaluate the submission according to the criteria specified in our Human Participant Data Policy and Guidelines.
     

Licensing and Distribution Requirements

To the extent the Submitter has asserted copyright in the dataset, the Submitter will provide a license agreement when a dataset is submitted to the system. This license agreement should include a statement that the data are open-source and ORNL has a right to save and redistribute the dataset to the public. The license agreement should also include permission to for ORNL to reproduce, prepare derivative works to, distribute copies, publicly display, publicly perform, the dataset, including the metadata store, translate, or re-format the data set in any way to ensure its future preservation and accessibility and to incorporate metadata or documentation in the data set into public access catalogs.  For more information see: https://opendefinition.org/od/2.1/en/

Long-Term Access Practices and Actions

Long-term access is among the project’s core values. Our goal is to make access through our data repository services synonymous with adding that content to the durable record of open scholarship. To the extent reasonable, Constellation will endeavor to provide access to the deposited data for a minimum period of 10 years.

File Formats and Preservation Support

ORNL will attempt to maintain the data and supporting files in the forms they were originally submitted and, at ORNL’s option, for some formats, may maintain the content, structure and/or functionality of the files through migration or other appropriate strategies.  In addition, ORNL will strive to provide basic services, which may include secure storage, backup, management, and periodic refreshment by copying the data to new storage media. The primary strategies include bit-level preservation including fixity checking and version control, file formats and obsolescence management, and information security. 

Retention Review

Datasets submitted to Constellation will be reviewed after 10 years to determine if a dataset needs format migration or management by another part of the Laboratory. The goal of these reviews is to identify and possibly remediate data that have become inaccessible (e.g., because of format obsolescence). For any datasets removed from Constellation all reasonable attempts will be made to find another steward at the Laboratory or return the dataset to the Submitter.  The retention review will be conducted by the Lead Data Curator.