Organisation Application
to use the

.CSIRO Enterprise Research Collection


 

The ____________________________________("Organisation"), an organisation of approximately ____________people engaging in research and development of natural-language-processing, information-retrieval or document-understanding systems, which is a part of:

Corporation/Partnership/Legal Entity ____________________________

Official mail address __________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________

Telephone _____________________________________

Facsimile _____________________________________

apply(ies) to use the information designated as the .CSIRO Enterprise Research Collection (the "Information") on the following understandings, terms and conditions. These understandings, terms and conditions apply equally to all or to part of the Information,
including any updates or new versions of the Information supplied under this agreement.

Copyright

  1. The Information has been obtained by crawling the public websites of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in the .csiro.au domain.
  2. CSIRO understands that all the documents in the Information are documents which have been at some time made publicly available on CSIRO's public websites and which have been collected using a process which respects the commonly accepted methods (such as robots.txt) for indicating that the documents should not be so collected.
  3. Copyright in the material available in the Information is owned by CSIRO and third parties. You must not change in individual documents any of the material or remove any part of any copyright notice.
  4. Due to the amount of Information it has not been practicable to obtain permission from any third party copyright owners to provide the Information for the Permitted Uses. Owners of copyright in individual documents may choose to request deletion of these documents from the Information.
  5. The limitation on permitted use contained in the following section is intended to reduce the risk of any action being brought by third party copyright owners, but if this happens the Organisation agrees to bear all associated liability.

Permitted Uses

  1. The Information may only be used for research and development of natural-language-processing, information-retrieval or document-understanding systems.
  2. Summaries, analyses and interpretations of the linguistic properties of the Information may be derived and published, provided it is not possible to reconstruct the Information from these summaries.
  3. Small excerpts of the Information may be displayed to others or published in a scientific or technical context, solely for the purpose of describing the research and development carried out and related issues.
  4. All efforts must be made not to infringe the rights of any third party including, but not limited to, the authors and publishers of any excerpts used in accordance with clause 3.

Own Assessment of Information Use

The Organisation must make its own assessment of the suitability of the Information for its research and development purposes under Permitted Uses.

CSIRO does not make any warranties:

  1. that the Information is suitable for any particular purpose;
  2. regarding the results of any use of the whole or part of the Information; or
  3. as to the accuracy, reliability or content of the Information

Agreement to Delete Data on Request

The Organisation undertakes to delete within thirty days of receiving notice all copies of any nominated document that is part of the Information whenever requested to do so by any one of:

  1. CSIRO; or
  2. the owner of copyright for the particular document.

Access to the Information by Individuals

The Organisation:

  1. must control access to the Information by individuals and may only grant access to people working under its control, i.e., its own members, consultants to the Organisation, or individuals providing service to the Organisation;
  2. must ensure that before being given access an individual must complete and submit the Individual Application form;
  3. must terminate an Individual's access when the conditions of the application no longer apply;
  4. remains responsible for any breach of the Individual Application form by individuals under its control;
  5. will retain the applications of all persons ever granted access to the Information and make them available upon request to any of the copyright holders and to CSIRO;
  6. will maintain a list of people with current and recently-terminated access to the Information and make it available to CSIRO on request; and
  7. must make sure that an Individual with access only displays the Information to or shares the Information with persons whom his or her Organisation lists as having access to the Information.

Termination

Either party may terminate the Agreement at any time by notifying the other party in writing. On termination, the Organisation must a) return to CSIRO or destroy all copies of the Information and b) notify CSIRO in writing of the action taken.

Applicable Law

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of New South Wales, Australia.

By the Organisation:


Signature_________________________________

Date ________________________________

Name (please print) ______________________________

Title ___________________________

Email address ___________________________
(for user/password data access)

Accepted by CSIRO Information and Communication Technologies Centre:

Signature_________________________________

Date ________________________________

Name (please print) ______________________________

Title ___________________________


Please print, complete and sign this form. Then fax or email a scanned copy of the completed form to the address below:

 

To: CSIRO ICT Centre

 

Subject: .CSIRO Enterprise Research Collection

 

Attn: Paul Thomas paul.thomas@csiro.au

 

Fax no: +61 2 6216 7111