Advancing Biological Data Standards for Marine Research

Discussion on biological data standards for marine research, challenges faced, existing standards, and the need for guidance and community building. Goals include maximizing data relevance for biodiversity studies. Ongoing work involves developing a primer for data managers unfamiliar with biological data standards. Regular communication through meetings, wiki, mailing list, and Slack channel. Cluster focused on standardizing marine biological data within ESIP.

• Biological Data
• Marine Research
• Data Standards
• Community Building
• Biodiversity Studies

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1. ESIP Biological Data Standards Cluster Lead: Abby Benson (USGS) Co-leads: Diana LaScala-Gruenewald (MBARI, CeNCOOS) Robert McGuinn (NOAA Affiliate) Erin Satterthwaite (UCSD, CA Sea Grant)

2. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) - Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Biological Data Standards Workshop We brought together over 90 participants to discuss biological data standards, mostly as they relate to marine biological data, and discussed challenges, connections, and opportunities. Our primary goal was to build a community of practice around advancing standards and recommended practices within the biological data management community. Over the course of the workshop some themes began to emerge: Themes Vocabularies / Ontologies Taxonomy (as related to standardized names and persistent identifiers) Biological Data Lifecycle (Protocols, Provenance, Metadata, Discovery and Access) Integrating Biological Data with Environmental Data Social / Institutional Issues Measurements Crosswalks between standards Building a Community of Practice

3. The Problem The diversity of biological data, and (seeming) lack of overarching community standards makes working with biological data challenging. Several standards do exist for biological data, however these different data, metadata, and taxonomic standards are confusing for data managers and data users to navigate. The biological data community in the US could benefit from guidance, best practice documentation, training, and community building.

4. ESIP Biological Data Standards Cluster Goal Goal is to maximize data relevance and utility for understanding changes in biodiversity over time

5. Current work to develop biological data standards primer for data managers Aim: Assist data managers who are unfamiliar with biological data standards with understanding what s out there Audience: data managers tasked with managing biological data Join our ESIP session Tuesday July 20 at 1100 ET! We would appreciate your feedback. Join our ESIP cluster- next meeting June 24 at 1300 ET

6. Communication Monthly meetings Wiki Mailing List Channel in the ESIP Slack

7. How do all the working groups fit together? ESIP BIOLOGICAL DATA STANDARDS CLUSTER STANDARDIZING MARINE BIOLOGICAL DATA MBON DMAC