IN047-12
Towards a Strategy on Ocean Data and Information Stewardship for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
Thursday, 17 December 2020: 04:33
Virtual
Pier Luigi Buttigieg1, Ward Appeltans2, Francisco Arias3, Lenore Bajona4, Sergey Belov5, Tim Boyer6, Sky Bristol7, Jan-Bart Calewaert8, Sheldon Carter9, Gabrielle Canonico10, Alison Clausen11, Taco De Bruin12, Rorie Edmunds13, Champika Gallage14, Katie Geddes15, Luciana Genio9, Alessandra Giorgetti16, Alfredo Giron17, Neil Holdsworth18, Kirsten Isensee11, Eduardo Klein19, Arthur Paterson20, Hassan Moustahfid21, Kevin O'Brien22, Ge Peng23, Peter Pissierssens24, Benjamin Pfeil25, Serge Scory26, Pieter Provoost27, Lucy Scott28, Elizabeth Tirpak15, Lauren Weatherdon29 and Hernan Eduardo Garcia30, (1)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Marine Research, Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration, Kiel, Germany, (2)International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission IOC) of UNESCO, Oostende, Belgium, (3)INVEMAR, Santa Marta D.T.C.H., Colombia, (4)Ocean Tracking Network, Dalhousie University, Halfaix, NS, Canada, (5)All-Russian Research Institute Hydrometeorological Information - World Data Center, Obninsk, Russia, (6)NOAA/National Oceanographic Data Center, Washington, DC, United States, (7)USGS Headquarters, Reston, VA, United States, (8)European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet), Brussels, Belgium, (9)International Seabed Authority, Kingston, Jamaica, (10)U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (11)Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, Paris, France, (12)NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, National Marine Facilities (NMF), Den Burg, Netherlands, (13)World Data System of the International Science Council, Tokyo, Japan, (14)World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, (15)NOAA, Washington D.C., United States, (16)Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Trieste, Italy, (17)National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (18)International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, (19)Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela, (20)NOAA/OAR, Washington D.C., United States, (21)NOAA US IOOS, US DOC, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (22)NOAA/PMEL UW Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, Seattle, WA, United States, (23)NC State University and NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, North Carolina (CICS-NC), Asheville, NC, United States, (24)International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission IOC) of UNESCO, Paris, France, (25)University of Bergen, Geophysical Institute, Bergen, Norway, (26)Belgian Marine Data Centre, Brussels, Belgium, (27)UNESCO, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Oostende, Belgium, (28)International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, Paris, France, (29)UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (30)NOAA/NODC, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Abstract:
Access to multi-sector marine data and information is one of the top priorities of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030 (henceforth, “the Decade”). Consequently, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) has convened an Inter-sessional Working Group to propose a Strategy on Ocean Data and Information Stewardship for the UN Ocean Decade (IWG-SODIS), managed by the UNESCO-IOC International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) programme.
Through our strategy development process, IWG-SODIS will release recommendations on shaping global digital stewardship cultures to support an interoperable digital ecosystem for the Decade, both within the UN System and beyond it. In developing this global strategy, we are contending with several key issues, most notably a lack of a universal data policy for managing and sharing international ocean data. Thus, we are forming recommendations around which global digital exchange policies can converge via clear, multilateral agreements. Our recommendations will emphasise the need for a set of universal (meta)data, information, and digital knowledge sharing principles for the Decade, aligned to the FAIR, CARE and TRUST principles and policies of existing global consortia. In brief, the principles will emphasise that data, information, and all digital products and services derived from them will 1) be shared online with minimal delay and restrictions on reuse and adaptation, 2) be released with complete metadata, including provenance and licensing data, and 3) be packaged in interoperable forms through compliance with emerging interoperability architectures supporting the Decade. Where restrictions on digital exchange are necessary, discoverable metadata archives should still be published with links to instructions on how to appropriately access, use, and credit digital materials. In this contribution, we seek to brief the AGU community on our progress and future plans, as well as to invite contributions from more stakeholders that wish to help shape the future of digital stewardship for sustainable development in and around the Earth's oceans.
