Organization Ownership Transfers

All media that represent physical objects are associated with an organization, which might be a museum, an institutional collection, or a faculty laboratory, among other possibilities. Some organizations on MorphoSource specify an organization-level data manager. This is a MorphoSource user who is intended to control most or all media representing physical objects from that organization. If you contribute media representing a physical object from an organization that has specified a data manager, you should be aware that the data manager will have the option to manage the media you contribute, either on initial media submission or when the media is published at some point in the future. During submission, the contributor determines whether the request to transfer management will be generated immediately on media submission, or in the future when the media is published. The organization data manager is not required to manage this media. They may opt to allow the original data depositor to remain as the manager for contributed media. By default, even if the organization data manager accepts the request and transfers media management to themself, the original contributor will still retain edit and view access to that media. Organization data managers can in some cases revoke this edit access when accepting the transfer request. 

If you are a media contributor and you think your media should not be managed by the organization or if you would like to discuss the timing of any management transfer now or in the future when the media is published, please contact the indicated organization data manager. If you are the organization data manager and you would like to inquire further about the context or origin of the contributed media, please contact that indicated data depositor.

Please note: this feature is not retroactive. If you contributed media prior to an organization selecting a data manager, you will not be obligated to offer a transfer of media management to the organization. All media contributors for whom this policy applies are informed about the organization's mandate to transfer media management during media submission, and media contributors must indicate that they understand and agree to abide by this policy to successfully complete media submission.