🔍 Objectives
- Establish operational runbooks for generating, reviewing, and publishing V9 outputs.
- Codify ethical guardrails: scope limits, uncertainty communication, and do-no-harm defaults.
- Deliver open, auditable artifacts (data, code, docs) with clear licenses and governance.
🧠 Key Concepts
- Tiers of Release: internal → partner sandbox → public datasets → public APIs.
- Two-key rule: scientific + ethics approvals required for outward-facing releases.
- Traceability: every figure/table ties to a commit hash, dataset version, and config.
- Right-sized claims: calibrated language, explicit limits, and use-constraints.
📦 Operational Inputs
- Validated windows and node scores from V9.8.
- Provenance graph: datasets (Kaggle slugs), code commits, config files, seeds.
- Risk register: known failure modes, model caveats, and red-team findings.
🧪 Methods (Ops Pipeline)
- Versioning: semantic tags
v9.major.minor; changelog with backward-compat notes. - Review Gates: (a) scientific QA (metrics from V9.8), (b) ethics QA (use cases, comms plan).
- Release Bundles: data (CSV/GeoJSON), figures, notebook,
README, dataset card, license, DOI metadata. - Interfaces: static dataset + optional read-only API (rate-limited, no alerting functions).
- Monitoring: post-release telemetry: downloads, forks, issues; calibration drift watch.
- Rollback: deprecate via headers + banner; publish corrective note & replacement DOI.
📜 Licensing & Attribution
- Data: ODC-BY (attribution required; allows remix/reuse).
- Code: MIT or Apache-2.0 (pick one project-wide for clarity).
- Docs: CC BY 4.0. Provide canonical citation and suggested BibTeX.
🛡️ Ethics, Risk & Communications
- Intended Use: research & education; not for emergency alerts or site-specific hazard decisions.
- Misuse Mitigation: no high-granularity “alarm” endpoints; aggregate-first outputs.
- Uncertainty Disclosure: show calibrated probabilities, confidence bands, and data gaps.
- Stakeholder Briefs: one-page summaries for scientists, policymakers, and lay readers.
- Community Governance: code of conduct; contributor license agreement (if needed); review SLAs.
✅ Outputs
- Release Kit: dataset + figures + notebook + dataset card + LICENSE + CITATION.cff + DOI.
- Provenance Manifest: inputs, hashes, configs, environment lockfile.
- Ops Runbook: reproducible steps for rebuilds and emergencies (rollback/deprecation).
📚 References (to stage)
- Open data & software licenses (ODC-BY, CC BY, MIT/Apache-2.0).
- Best practices in uncertainty communication and risk governance for geoscience.