Marine Research Data Controlled-Collaboration Governance Baseline Version 1.0.0

Cross-border and cross-institutional marine research repeatedly encounters a governance problem that existing instruments address only in part: data that are scientifically valuable are frequently also sensitive, and the prevailing operational choice is reduced to a binary one between transferring a copy and refusing access. That binary cannot simultaneously satisfy the custodian institution's control obligations, the collaborator's analytical needs, the reproducibility expectations of the wider community, and the fair attribution of contributions made at different points along a data lifecycle. This baseline specifies a set of minimum, reusable governance artefacts that allow a data-holding institution to retain custody of source records while granting separately scoped permissions over discovery, viewing, computation, export, publication, reuse and sublicensing. It comprises four normative annexes: a six-dimension data classification matrix (Annex A); a controlled-access policy specification covering purpose declaration, eligibility, computation environment, query and training constraints, logging, output review, expiry, incident response and appeals (Annex B); a provenance graph field specification based on an event model and aligned with established provenance and metadata standards (Annex C); and a contribution record specification that extends an existing contributor-role taxonomy towards research-data settings and maps it to data citation practice (Annex D).