Data contribution notice

Draft for the author's review. Have it checked before the contribution panel is switched on.

Who is collecting the data

Omri Abas (the "author"), for a research study on the duration and representativeness of environmental noise measurements: whether a measurement over part of a period, such as one hour, represents the whole period, such as a nine-hour night. The study continues the article What percentile sound levels identify: energy bounds, background recovery, and source combination (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23088962), which leaves this question open in its Sections 8.9 and 9.5.

What is sent

• The measurement file you selected, as it was uploaded (compressed), stored under a random identifier.
• Your answers in the contribution form: measurement type, logging interval, weighting, start time and time zone, the period covered, environment, sources present, microphone position, instrument class, weather, purpose, country and region.
• The column mapping you chose and summary descriptors computed in your browser (duration, Leq, L10, L50, L90, L95), which let the study parse and screen the files automatically.
• Optionally your name, organisation and e-mail address.

Nothing is sent when you only use the calculator. The calculator runs entirely in your browser. A contribution is sent only when you press "Send" with the required boxes ticked.

What is not wanted

No names of clients or residents, no addresses, no coordinates, no photographs. Please remove site names from the file name before sending. If your file contains such data in extra columns, remove the columns first. You confirm that you have the right to share the record.

How the data are used

• Analysis for the research study and publications arising from it. Results are reported in aggregate or as anonymous examples.
• If you tick the optional box, the record may be included in an open dataset deposited with the companion paper under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY 4.0), with the metadata above but without your e-mail address. If you do not tick it, the record is used in the analysis only and is not redistributed.
• Your e-mail address, if given, is used only to acknowledge the contribution, to ask a question about the record, or to process a withdrawal. It is not published and not passed on.

Storage and retention

Files and metadata are stored in a private cloud storage account controlled by the author (hosted by Supabase Inc.), readable only by the author. Records are kept for the duration of the study and of any open dataset built from it. Contact details are deleted when no longer needed for the purposes above.

Withdrawal

You may ask for a record to be removed at any time by writing to omri.abas1@gmail.com with the contribution ID shown after sending. Records already included in a published open dataset cannot be recalled from copies others have downloaded.

Acknowledgement

If you ask to be named, contributors are listed in the acknowledgements of the companion paper. Otherwise the contribution is anonymous.

Contact

Questions about the study or this notice: omri.abas1@gmail.com.