Can a R.E.DD.B. project be protected or hidden to the scientific community ?
A R.E.DD.B. project can be temporary protected or hidden to the scientific community. The choice of protecting a project and the period of protection is made by its author during the project submission procedure in R.E.DD.B. This feature has been implemented in R.E.DD.B. to allow the author of a R.E.DD.B. project to protect her/his data for a period of 3, 6 or 12 months (for instance before publication). Then, after this period of protection and in agreement with its author(s), the project is deprotected and the data are fully available to the scientific community. If the author of a R.E.DD.B. project decides to protect her/his project, the IP address of the machine used to perform the submission is automatically recorded by the R.E.DD.B. server. Once the project is uploaded, the author can only access her/his project by using the IP used during the project submission, and the correct path to the project directory (i. e. REDDB-url/uploadfile/’REDDB-code’/). The author can only download
