JERICO-S3 D6.3 - Data Management Best practices report for physical and BGC platforms. Version 2.0.

Abstract

This document provides information on the data management best practices for three widely used platforms for the data collection in the coastal zone: HF-Radars, ocean gliders and FerryBoxes. The existing standards and best practices from marine community efforts were reviewed and compiled by specific JERICO-S3 partners (CNR for HF-Radars, SOCIB for Gliders and Hereon for FerryBoxes) all selected due to their long experience, and expertise. The provided best practices and standards in this report regard the processing steps from the acquisition to the data delivery for each platform, the best practices concerning the data processing, the quality control and quality assurance (both in NRT and DM), the upcoming issues and vulnerabilities of the data management encountered in each platform, training materials and contacts, as well as examples of data management plans. The implementation of the best practices described in this document is expected to increase the data FAIRness, facilitating the data integration into the relevant European Data aggregators, such as the Copernicus Marine, the EMODnet and the SeaDataNet.