Important

To access any links under the DAOSA "Proprietary Data Access" menu you MUST have a CADC account. Use the CADC registration page to request one. Note also that CADC account creation is NOT an automated process. CADC operations staff review each new account request during regular business hours, approximately 9AM to 5PM, Monday to Friday.

Accessing Proprietary Data: DAO Principal Investigators

At the start of each observing quarter, DAO staff will provide you access to your DAO science program data for a given quarter by matching your CADC user ID with the unique program ID for your observing program. (You will obviously be contacted if we can NOT find a CADC user ID for you!) As a result, your active DAO program should always appear in the list of programs displayed on the Access your PI Data page available under the "Proprietary Data Access" menu. You may immediately search for data from a science program by selecting the appropriate program in the list to the left and clicking the "List datasets" button.

You may now also use the "DAO Science Archive" query under the "Proprietary Data Access" menu to carry out a normal DAOSA search, but with proprietary access to any of your own data that happen to appear in the result set returned by the query. Datasets for which you have special proprietary access will have "Mark" buttons highlighted in green. (If you had used a form in the public "DAOSA Queries" menu the "Mark" buttons for such private data would not be displayed.)

Please note that metadata associated with DAO data (i.e. the content of the FITS header) is considered public immediately upon acquisition.

Controlling Access to Your Proprietary PI Data

It is possible for a PI to grant other co-investigators (Co-Is) membership to groups you, as PI, control for each of your DAO science programs. First, you must ask your Co-Is to provide you with their CADC user ID. Once you have that information, enter the Access your DAO PI data page, select the desired DAO science program from the selection list on the right of the page in the "DAO Program ID's for which you are the PI" box and click the "View Membership" button. In this membership control page simply enter a CADC user ID and click the "Add Member" button for each Co-I. If that user now enters the DAO PI access page with his or her own CADC user ID and password he/she will see the appropriate science program in the access list to the left of the page. Note: you may also remove a Co-I's access to your data by following the above steps to enter the membership control page, select the desired group member and click on the "Delete Member" button.

Accessing Proprietary Data: DAO Co-Investigators

To obtain access to proprietary DAO data you must contact the PI of the DAO science program in question. If you provide the PI with your CADC user ID then she/he can quite readily grant you access to data for that program by following the instructions above. Once such access has been granted, enter the Access your DAO PI data page by using your own CADC user ID and password and you should find the science program listed in the "Program ID's for which you have authorized access" box on the left of the page.