Comprehensive data management for an ocean observatory: ONC\u27s Oceans 2.0

Ocean Networks Canada operates several comprehensive cabled ocean networks and a suite of single-point marine observing systems across Canada. Data flow in real-time from hundreds of sensors, installed beneath the ocean bottom, though the water column, and at the ocean surface. ONC has built a complimentary data management system, Oceans 2.0 that allows for real-time acquisition, secure storage, data exploration, and data product delivery. Key elements of the Oceans 2.0 data management system will be high-lighted, with a focus on best practices and lessons learned

The TRUST Principles for digital repositories.

As information and communication technology has become pervasive in our society, we are increasingly dependent on both digital data and repositories that provide access to and enable the use of such resources. Repositories must earn the trust of the communities they intend to serve and demonstrate that they are reliable and capable of appropriately managing the data they hold. Following a year-long public discussion and building on existing community consensus1, several stakeholders, representing various segments of the digital repository community, have collaboratively developed and endorsed a set of guiding principles to demonstrate digital repository trustworthiness. Transparency, Responsibility, User focus, Sustainability and Technology: the TRUST Principles provide a common framework to facilitate discussion and implementation of best practice in digital preservation by all stakeholders.Proyecto de Enlace de Biblioteca

Los principios TRUST en los repositorios digitales

Con la adopción cada vez más generalizada de las TICs en nuestra sociedad, dependemos cada vez más de los datos digitales y de los repositorios que brindan acceso a ese tipo de recursos y nos permiten utilizarlos. Los repositorios deben ganarse la confianza de las comunidades a las que pretenden brindar servicios y demostrar que son confiables y capaces de administrar adecuadamente los datos que contienen. Tras un debate público que se prolongó durante un año y en función del consenso actual de la comunidad, varias partes interesadas, que representan diversos segmentos de la comunidad de los repositorios digitales, han colaborado para desarrollar y avalar un conjunto de principios rectores, para demostrar que el repositorio digital es confiable. Estos principios abarcan la Transparencia, la Responsabilidad, el Foco en el Usuario, la Sostenibilidad y la Tecnología, y presentan un marco común para facilitar el debate y la implementación de las mejores prácticas en cuanto a preservación digital en beneficio de todas las partes interesadas.Este artículo es una traducción de: Lin, D., Crabtree, J., Dillo, I., Downs, R. R., Edmunds, R., Giaretta, D., De Giusti, M., L’Hours, H., Hugo, W., Jenkyns, R., Khodiyar, V., Martone, M. E., Mokrane, M., Navale, V., Petters, J., Sierman, B., Sokolova, D. V., Stockhause, M., & Westbrook, J. (2020). The TRUST Principles for digital repositories. Scientific Data, 7(1), 144. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0486-7Servicio de Difusión de la Creación Intelectua

Los principios TRUST en los repositorios digitales

Con la adopción cada vez más generalizada de las TICs en nuestra sociedad, dependemos cada vez más de los datos digitales y de los repositorios que brindan acceso a ese tipo de recursos y nos permiten utilizarlos. Los repositorios deben ganarse la confianza de las comunidades a las que pretenden brindar servicios y demostrar que son confiables y capaces de administrar adecuadamente los datos que contienen. Tras un debate público que se prolongó durante un año y en función del consenso actual de la comunidad, varias partes interesadas, que representan diversos segmentos de la comunidad de los repositorios digitales, han colaborado para desarrollar y avalar un conjunto de principios rectores, para demostrar que el repositorio digital es confiable. Estos principios abarcan la Transparencia, la Responsabilidad, el Foco en el Usuario, la Sostenibilidad y la Tecnología, y presentan un marco común para facilitar el debate y la implementación de las mejores prácticas en cuanto a preservación digital en beneficio de todas las partes interesadas.Este artículo es una traducción de: Lin, D., Crabtree, J., Dillo, I., Downs, R. R., Edmunds, R., Giaretta, D., De Giusti, M., L’Hours, H., Hugo, W., Jenkyns, R., Khodiyar, V., Martone, M. E., Mokrane, M., Navale, V., Petters, J., Sierman, B., Sokolova, D. V., Stockhause, M., & Westbrook, J. (2020). The TRUST Principles for digital repositories. Scientific Data, 7(1), 144. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0486-7Servicio de Difusión de la Creación Intelectua

Los principios TRUST en los repositorios digitales

Con la adopción cada vez más generalizada de las TICs en nuestra sociedad, dependemos cada vez más de los datos digitales y de los repositorios que brindan acceso a ese tipo de recursos y nos permiten utilizarlos. Los repositorios deben ganarse la confianza de las comunidades a las que pretenden brindar servicios y demostrar que son confiables y capaces de administrar adecuadamente los datos que contienen. Tras un debate público que se prolongó durante un año y en función del consenso actual de la comunidad, varias partes interesadas, que representan diversos segmentos de la comunidad de los repositorios digitales, han colaborado para desarrollar y avalar un conjunto de principios rectores, para demostrar que el repositorio digital es confiable. Estos principios abarcan la Transparencia, la Responsabilidad, el Foco en el Usuario, la Sostenibilidad y la Tecnología, y presentan un marco común para facilitar el debate y la implementación de las mejores prácticas en cuanto a preservación digital en beneficio de todas las partes interesadas.Este artículo es una traducción de: Lin, D., Crabtree, J., Dillo, I., Downs, R. R., Edmunds, R., Giaretta, D., De Giusti, M., L’Hours, H., Hugo, W., Jenkyns, R., Khodiyar, V., Martone, M. E., Mokrane, M., Navale, V., Petters, J., Sierman, B., Sokolova, D. V., Stockhause, M., & Westbrook, J. (2020). The TRUST Principles for digital repositories. Scientific Data, 7(1), 144. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0486-7Servicio de Difusión de la Creación Intelectua

STRAW-b (STRings for Absorption length in Water-b): the second pathfinder mission for the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment

Since 2018, the potential for a high-energy neutrino telescope, named the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE), has been thoroughly examined by two pathfinder missions, STRAW and STRAW-b, short for short for Strings for Absorption Length in Water. The P-ONE project seeks to install a neutrino detector with a one cubic kilometer volume in the Cascadia Basin's deep marine surroundings, situated near the western shores of Vancouver Island, Canada. To assess the environmental conditions and feasibility of constructing a neutrino detector of that scale, the pathfinder missions, STRAW and STRAW-b, have been deployed at a depth of 2.7 km within the designated site for P-ONE and were connected to the NEPTUNE observatory, operated by Ocean Networks Canada (ONC). While STRAW focused on analyzing the optical properties of water in the Cascadia Basin, \ac{strawb} employed cameras and spectrometers to investigate the characteristics of bioluminescence in the deep-sea environment. This report introduces the STRAW-b concept, covering its scientific objectives and the instrumentation used. Furthermore, it discusses the design considerations implemented to guarantee a secure and dependable deployment process of STRAW-b. Additionally, it showcases the data collected by battery-powered loggers, which monitored the mechanical stress on the equipment throughout the deployment. The report also offers an overview of STRAW-b's operation, with a specific emphasis on the notable advancements achieved in the data acquisition (DAQ) system and its successful integration with the server infrastructure of ONC.Comment: 20 pages, 11 figures, 2 table

Evolving and sustaining ocean best practices and standards for the next decade

The oceans play a key role in global issues such as climate change, food security, and human health. Given their vast dimensions and internal complexity, efficient monitoring and predicting of the planet’s ocean must be a collaborative effort of both regional and global scale. A first and foremost requirement for such collaborative ocean observing is the need to follow well-defined and reproducible methods across activities: from strategies for structuring observing systems, sensor deployment and usage, and the generation of data and information products, to ethical and governance aspects when executing ocean observing. To meet the urgent, planet-wide challenges we face, methods across all aspects of ocean observing should be broadly adopted by the ocean community and, where appropriate, should evolve into “Ocean Best Practices.” While many groups have created best practices, they are scattered across the Web or buried in local repositories and many have yet to be digitized. To reduce this fragmentation, we introduce a new open access, permanent, digital repository of best practices documentation (oceanbestpractices.org) that is part of the Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS). The new OBPS provides an opportunity space for the centralized and coordinated improvement of ocean observing methods. The OBPS repository employs user-friendly software to significantly improve discovery and access to methods. The software includes advanced semantic technologies for search capabilities to enhance repository operations. In addition to the repository, the OBPS also includes a peer reviewed journal research topic, a forum for community discussion and a training activity for use of best practices. Together, these components serve to realize a core objective of the OBPS, which is to enable the ocean community to create superior methods for every activity in ocean observing from research to operations to applications that are agreed upon and broadly adopted across communities. Using selected ocean observing examples, we show how the OBPS supports this objective. This paper lays out a future vision of ocean best practices and how OBPS will contribute to improving ocean observing in the decade to come

Making Identifiers Necessary to Track Evolving Data (MINTED) – A Brief Overview

Presentation on the creating permanent identifiers for dynamic data. For the National Data Services Framework Summit 2019

Precisely and Persistently Identifying and Citing Arbitrary Subsets of Dynamic Data

International audiencePrecisely identifying arbitrary subsets of data so that these can be reproduced is a daunting challenge in data-driven science, the more so if the underlying data source is dynamically evolving. Yet an increasing number of settings exhibit exactly those characteristics. Larger amounts of data are being continuously ingested from a range of sources (be it sensor values, online questionnaires, documents, etc.), with error correction and quality improvement processes adding to the dynamics. Yet, for studies to be reproducible, for decision-making to be transparent, and for meta studies to be performed conveniently, having a precise identification mechanism to reference, retrieve, and work with such data is essential. The Research Data Alliance (RDA) Working Group on Dynamic Data Citation has published 14 recommendations that are centered around time-stamping and versioning evolving data sources and identifying subsets dynamically via persistent identifiers that are assigned to the queries selecting the respective subsets. These principles are generic and work for virtually any kind of data. In the past few years numerous repositories around the globe have implemented these recommendations and deployed solutions. We provide an overview of the recommendations, reference implementations, and pilot systems deployed and then analyze lessons learned from these implementations. This article provides a basis for institutions and data stewards considering adding this functionality to their data systems

The TRUST Principles for digital repositories.

As information and communication technology has become pervasive in our society, we are increasingly dependent on both digital data and repositories that provide access to and enable the use of such resources. Repositories must earn the trust of the communities they intend to serve and demonstrate that they are reliable and capable of appropriately managing the data they hold