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Data acceptanceData acceptance

J-OBIS accepts only well quality-controlled data based on the marine biological standard. Submitted data should meet DarwinCore format (DwC) including specific DwC terms designated by the J-OBIS, and the data will be reviewed by the J-OBIS Advisory Board.

J-OBIS does not claim any ownership for the submitted data/dataset(s) . The intellectual property rights of the data/dataset(s) should be attributed to the data provider (the person or organization that submits data/dataset(s) to J-OBIS) . J-OBIS, however, requests the data provider to select one of the Creative Commons licenses (CC-0, CC-BY or CC-BY-NC), and to agree that the data/dataset(s) will be made available under the selected license. Please read, understand and agree the OBIS data policy (Guidelines on the sharing and use of data in OBIS) and the following conditions:

Data submission

To submit data/dataset(s), please fill the application form (MS Word file: 48KB) , and send it the following address together with sample data (MS Excel: 14KB) in DarwinCore format (DwC2.0 or DwC1.4) . Aside from the sample data in application, the data that will be submitted and registered to BISMaL and OBIS must be in DwC2.0 format.

Postal address: 224-3 Toyohara, Nago-shi, Okinawa 905-2172, Japan
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
Global Oceanographic Data Center (GODAC)
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