AQUARIUS WP6, Data Management & Open Science Practices - D 6.2 AQUARIUS Data Management Plan

As part of the TA projects in AQUARIUS, many new data sets in a large variety of data types will be collected by the TA scientific teams, making use and combining multiple and different observation installations as provided. There will be a strong effort in AQUARIUS to get the maximum return of investment from the TA activities towards serving the EU Mission and Partnership targets and associated initiatives and projects with the generation of new data, data products, and scientific knowledge. Therefore, AQUARIUS has adopted an open data policy, which will be implemented with a dedicated Data Management approach, to ensure that all gathered and generated metadata and data will be managed in line with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). The metadata and data should become part of the archives managed and operated by leading European data management infrastructures, such as SeaDataNet1 (physics, bathymetry, chemistry, biology, geology), EurOBIS2 (biodiversity), ELIXIR-ENA3 (biogenomics), ICOS-Ocean4 (carbon), and Copernicus INSTAC5 (Near- Real-Time data), for quality assurance, long term stewardship, and wide access and use. These infrastructures in turn are feeding into EMODnet, Copernicus Marine, Blue-Cloud (EOSC), Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO) developments, and globally to e.g. GEOSS, and the digital ocean ecosystem that is being developed in the framework of the UN-IOC Ocean Decade programme.