Progress report for
Science for deep-ocean sustainability
Achievement at a glance
DOOS seeks to find and leverage deep-ocean data from across facilities and programs by developing collaborations to create a schema.org-based pilot data discovery portal. DOOS plans to work iteratively with ocean data facilities, scientists and programs to: 1) Develop a schema.org profile that captures critical concepts needed for discovering deep-ocean data (e.g., depth, EOVs). This will define how data facilities describe their data using common vocabularies, identifiers, and relationships in a lightweight, machine readable format. 2) Support ocean data facilities to implement the profile for their data by creating profile-compliant JSON-LD markup on their websites. 3) Develop a scientifically useful, cross-facility data discovery portal that pulls from the semantically consistent, machine-readable markup. 4) Support do-athons where scientists use the portal to address their scientific research goals and provide feedback\r\n\r\nImplementing DOOS (iDOOS) addresses three themes: (T1) requirement setting for deep-ocean observing; (T2) promoting the coordination and implementation of integrated observing to address SDGs; (T3) translating knowledge and data to allow science-based decision-making, regulation and governance of the global deep ocean. iDOOS will have two cross-cutting activities: (A.i) data/informatics, which will contribute best practices and standards to the requirements setting theme, provide informatics support across the working group activities, and offer training, all towards the goal of enabling findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) deep-sea data and a data-enabled deep-sea workforce; (A.ii) development of a network of Deep-Ocean Early career Researchers (DOERs), the next generation of deep-ocean scientists. iDOOS will work within the framework of GOOS and its three disciplinary expert panels to refine EOVs in terms of deep-ocean requirements, and with network partners to maximize their implementation. These efforts have been submitted to NSF AccelNET, US Ocean Shots, and IOC Decade for Ocean Science (now in discussion with other programmes as a Deep-Ocean Cluster).Challenges faced in implementation
Funding shortages. COVID-related time restrictions for leadership.Beneficiaries
Deep-sea practitioners: science community, data generators, data managers, data users, business and policy makers reliant on deep-sea information
Actions
Creation of a Deep-sea programme Cluster for the Decade creates a vehicle for collaboration going forwardPeer-reviewed publications create a basis for project planning and proposal preparation to advance deep-sea observing and data management.