1. Responsible Data Use: Providing Feedback Ruth Duerr National Snow and Ice Data Center Version 0.1.0 Review Date

2. Responsible Data Use: Providing Feedback; Version 0.1.0, Reviewed ?/?/?? Overview As a data user you have the obligation to provide feedback to the provider of the data you are using when you find problems or even if you have questions about the data

3. Responsible Data Use: Providing Feedback; Version 0.1.0, Reviewed ?/?/?? Why? Prevent other users from repeating your mistakes Improve the data or their documentation Better science, perhaps even new results, papers, and collaborators So the data will still be available the next time you need it!

4. Responsible Data Use: Providing Feedback; Version 0.1.0, Reviewed ?/?/?? How? Feedback to a PI Your reasons for using someone elses data are likely different than their reasons for acquiring it in the first place So, they probably werent thinking of your needs when they acquired, documented and made it available Yet, if they thought their data would be useful to a community they probably would be eager to help Diplomacy and tact may be called for (especially if you really think youve found an error, not just a documentation problem) Feedback to a data center is almost always welcome

5. Responsible Data Use: Providing Feedback; Version 0.1.0, Reviewed ?/?/?? Resources Polar Information Commons – Ethics and Norms of Data Sharing, http://www.polarcommons.org/ethics-and-norms-of-data-sharing.php http://www.polarcommons.org/ethics-and-norms-of-data-sharing.php Federation of Earth Science Information Partners – Data Stewardship Principles and Recommended Best Practices, http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Interagency_Data_Stewardship/Principl es http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Interagency_Data_Stewardship/Principl es Implementation Guidelines for the GEOSS Data Sharing Principles, http://www.earthobservations.org/documents/geo_vi/07_Implementation %20Guidelines%20for%20the%20GEOSS%20Data%20Sharing%20Prin ciples%20Rev2.pdf http://www.earthobservations.org/documents/geo_vi/07_Implementation %20Guidelines%20for%20the%20GEOSS%20Data%20Sharing%20Prin ciples%20Rev2.pdf

6. Responsible Data Use: Providing Feedback; Version 0.1.0, Reviewed ?/?/?? Other Modules in the Responsible Data Use series Citation and credit Data restrictions Fair access and use