According to the data rights document, the default two year grace period is only for US and Chilean based early career researchers who move to a country/institution without data rights. It says “Grace periods for international members who lose their data rights due to a change in their institutional affiliation will be codified in the international member Data Rights Agreements. Grace periods will be contingent on relocation to an institution that is eligible to host researchers with Rubin data rights.”
Given the first data release is on its way in the coming months and access to the Rubin Science Platform is contingent on Data Rights, there’s no easy way to figure what the grace period is for each in-kind agreement. Would it be possible add a page to the in-kind program website that includes the grace periods for the all agreements signed/draft agreements?
Many thanks for bringing up this topic and yes we will add more info on this to our web pages. You are right that the 2-year grace period as written in the data rights doc specifies US/Chilean ECRs explicitly. The expectation has been that the international programs would reflect the 2-year period and this is included in data rights agreements (please see the excerpt below). So the 2-year period applies to all data rights holding programs.
“Note that in the event that a PI or JA undergoes a change in their institutional affiliation to one outside the XXX-XXX program, that person will no longer be listed as one of the XXX-XXX data rights holders but they will retain data rights as an individual for a period of two (2) years from the time of the change (their “Grace Period”). Grace Periods are contingent upon the aforesaid relocation being to an institution that is eligible to host researchers with Rubin data rights. If a JA is promoted to a permanent position at a XXX-XXX program institute, they will also retain data rights under a corresponding 2-year Grace Period before transitioning to PI status. Extension requests to the Grace Period may be made to the Data Policy Committee, as identified in the Rubin Data Policy. Participants in the in-kind program are expected to abide by the Rubin codes of conduct.”
We will let you know when this has been added to the web pages.
Hi @mschwamb, we are currently right in the middle of updating the in-kind program and data rights web pages. We will be adding this into to that probably in the next week or two. In the meantime, you can share the link to this community post.
Thanks, Aprajita.