IOOS Marine Life Data Network Guidance

[Gabrielle Canonico - NOAA Federal]

Dear IOOS Community,

The IOOS Marine Life team has developed comprehensive documentation of recommended best practices for managing marine life data. We have published these recommendations to the Marine Life Data Network website: https://ioos.github.io/marine_life_data_network/. The goal of the IOOS Marine Life Data Network (MLDN) is to ensure that all marine life data generated by IOOS Regional Associations and related networks, such as MBON and ATN, are openly accessible, well documented, and ready for reuse. The documentation provided was originally developed through the work of the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network’s DMAC Working Group and is now being expanded to cover all IOOS marine life data. The documentation provides the IOOS DMAC guidelines for marine life data management to help us achieve these goals for open and FAIR data.

Please review the Marine Life Data Network website and consider how these best practices might be integrated into our current processes and strategies. The Marine Life Data Network is an open, collaborative effort with the entire IOOS community. We welcome feedback on the website and data management recommendations through the GitHub repository where the content is managed.

Best regards,

Gabrielle

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Gabrielle Canonico

U.S. IOOS Marine Life Program Manager

[Mathew Biddle - NOAA Federal]

Dear IOOS Community,

After receiving some comments and requests for clarification on the Marine Life Data Network Recommendations site (https://ioos.github.io/marine_life_data_network/), the IOOS Marine Life Team has updated the landing page. The documentation now includes:

• Clearer guidance about data management for various categories of marine life observations.
• Guidance for acoustic telemetry data management approaches.
• An overarching statement about how the Darwin Core standard applies to any observation of a species at a place and time, regardless of the observing method.
  

As always, if you have questions or suggestions, please feel free to contribute to the documentation or raise issues via GitHub.

Thanks,

Matt

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Mathew Biddle, Physical Scientist
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