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The Agencies agree to share three forms of data-information :
- Textual (reports, circulars, manuals, etc.),
- Tabular (databases, tables, spreadsheets, etc.); and
- Spatial (maps, geo-referenced databases, GIS applications, etc.)
For the purposes of sharing these different forms of data-information shall be classified under three categories :
- Public Access Information: Data-information classified under this category shall be available to everybody. Typically this may include All metadata (catalogues), general information about Projects and Programs in the Tonle Sap Basin, articles, papers, news events, etc.
- Privileged Access Information: Data-information classified under this category shall be free to only to those Agencies who are signatories to this MOU. Non MOU members (the world at large) would have to pay for information classified as Privileged Access Information.. Such information shall be available at no cost to the MOU signatories and may typically include tabular data collected by different projects and programs, internal progress reports, government orders and circulars, etc.
- Priced Access Information: Data-information classified under this category shall be available only upon payment of a fee to the Data Producing Agency. Metadata about this category shall be freely available to all, but the actual data would be accessible (downloadable) only upon payment of the price agreed to mutually by TSBRS and the agency which collected and compiled this data. Typically this may include tabular data collected and updated by a government department / agency as part of its routine activities. For instance rainfall and temperature data collected by the Department of Meteorology, water quality data collected by Department of Hydrology, soil and topography data collected by Department of Agronomy, etc.
Although it is up to the respective MOU members to classify their data / information for selling (Priced Access Information), the MOU strongly encourages FREE sharing of data, at least among the MOU members (Privileged Access Information); and wherever possible, with the general public (Public Access Information).
The MOU members understand and fully support the concept that the best way to generate maximum value from the funds spent for data collection by respective data producers, is NOT by selling the data but by sharing it FREELY and as widely as possible. This will ensure that the Government of Cambodia benefits by the use of this shared information, and not an individual ministry or agency alone.
The data-information and metadata (data about data) would be shared in as per pre-agreed common formats and templates. |
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