CASC Responsibilities

The CASCs will complete the following metadata responsibilities for the CASC records for co-funded projects and products, after being notified that a Service metadata record has been created with associations to the CASC ScienceBase records.

Co-funded Protocol

When a CASC project is co-funded with the Service:

CASC will add the following statement to the Summary in the CASC ScienceBase record:

• “This project was co-funded by the [X, Y, Z] Climate Adaptation Science Centers and the USFWS [A, B, C] region program. An alternate reference to this project can be found here[insert SA ScienceBase URL].”

Example: “This project was co-funded by the South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center and the USFWS Gulf Coast Region. An alternate reference to this project can be found here.”

The Service will include a parallel statement in the Summary field for their ScienceBase record, link back to the CASC record, and create the association in ScienceBase.

When a CASC product is co-funded with the Service:

CASC will add the following text to the Summary in the CASC ScienceBase record:

“This product was co-funded by USFWS [A, B, C] region and the [X, Y, Z] Climate Adaptation Science Centers. An alternate reference to this product can be found here[insert SA ScienceBase URL].”

Example: “This project was co-funded by USFWS Gulf Coast Region and the South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center. An alternate reference to this product can be found here.”

The Service will include a parallel statement in the Summary field for their ScienceBase record, link back to the CASC record, and create the association in ScienceBase.

Sub-Project Protocol

If a CASC project is a sub-project of a Service project:

1. Add the following text to the Summary in the CASC ScienceBase record: “This project is a sub-project of USFWS [X] region project described here[insert LCC ScienceBase URL].”

2. Add the association in ScienceBase as a “subprojectOf” the SA metadata record.