When publishing a paper based on Rubin imaging, is it not allowed to actually show an image in the paper?
This is what it sounds like in the data policy document (RDO-013), because the images are considered proprietary data products. If an image is publicly available on the EPO website, that could be used (Sec. 8.3.d), but it wouldn’t necessary show the image in the same way as needed for scientific purposes.
Hi @romanow , thanks for this question.
While it’s true that the Rubin data policy says “For the purposes of publication, reproducibility of scientific results should be accomplished by including, describing or citing the queries used to generate the LSST data set on which the analysis was made, and not by posting or publishing copies of the proprietary LSST data” (DPOL-703), it is OK to make figures that show pixel data and include them in a paper (e.g., in png, pdf formats). It’s understood that this is necessary for scientific purposes, as you say.
Just as an example (not what you were suggesting at all, just illustrating here) – what wouldn’t be OK is downloading the FITS images used for the paper’s analysis and making them publicly available after publication. That’s the case where including the query that defines the dataset is the way to go.
I’m going to mark this as the solution because I think it’s the answer you were looking for, but, please feel free to respond or make a new Topic any time.