1. Network Recognition Criteria
Draft proposal
Jan René Larsen
SAON Board Meeting, January 2012, Tromsø ,

2. From
‘SAON Briefing presented on SAO Meeting, Copenhagen’, ‘SAON SG Support’
1. It is a functioning activity, not a plan or hope;
2. There is a defined point of contact and a process for regular dissemination of information (a Web site and/or newsletter);
3. There is a public mechanism (preferably a web site) for obtaining information (metadata) about the observing activities and data;

3. From
‘SAON Briefing presented on SAO Meeting, Copenhagen’, ‘SAON SG Support’
4. Appropriate data quality control procedures are in place;
5. The principles of free and open data access is being followed to the maximum extent possible;
6. Plans are in-place for both medium and long-term data archiving at nationality- and/or internationally-recognized data repositories.

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