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Stimulating Ocean Best Practices: Dialogues across Science and Technology for Innovative Solutions and Effective Governance. Ocean Best Practices Workshop VIII, 14-18 October 2024 [ONLINE]. Proceedings. van Dongen-Vogels, Virginie; Ciliberti, Stefania A.; Cabrera, Patricia; Simpson, Pauline The Ocean Best Practices System Workshop VIII (OBPS VIII) aimed at promoting a fruitful dialogue across ocean science and technology thanks to the support of the cross-cutting primary role of best practices in operational oceanography. In the era of Digital Twins for the Ocean, the need of best practices is fundamental for a more interoperable and reliable use of ocean data, for the evolution of the worldwide observing network from the deep ocean to the coast and for dealing with complex forecasting systems. The OBPS VIII workshop was held online from 14-18 October 2024, bringing together participants virtually to collaborate and share insights. The OBPS VIII has been driven by the UN Ocean Decade 2030 Vision, stimulating the discussion around the ocean value chain and integrated multi-platform ocean observing system for innovative solutions and governance, spanning from the synergy between the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and the International Ocean Data and Information Exchange (IODE) in endorsing and identifying ocean best practices to the maturity of ocean enterprise in digital data solutions, from the role of ocean forecasting in creating and connecting efficiently, systems from global to coastal scale to the strategic path identified by the 2024 UN Ocean Decade Conference in Barcelona which stated the importance on working at community level for achieving the 2030 Goals of the Ocean Decade by leveraging over the 3 keywords: “ambition”, “action”, and “impact”. The Workshop has been represented by discussions on Science, Technology and Applications, Governance and Society, including the role of Capacity Development and Ocean Literacy: 22 online sessions gathered more than 800 worldwide experts and enthusiasts in ocean science and technology, motivated to understand how standards and best practices developments can contribute to the future generations of systems and applications, identifying general tasks to implement in dedicated programmes and projects, highlighting the fundamental role of OBPS as a catalyzer for succeeding in such challenges and promoting innovative solutions, offering ways forward and recommendations to the OBPS community. Finally, the OBPS VIII reflected on the importance of designing, developing, proposing, and adopting standards and best practices to lead to greater efficiency and improved capability along the ocean value chain, guaranteeing interoperability between methods and enforcing robustness and reproducibility and trust. Cooperation and engagement across the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and the communities are the key for increasing visibility of best practices and addressing new challenging needs.

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OceanPractices: Ocean Best Practices Workshop VII & Focus Sessions, 09-20 October 2023 [ONLINE]. Proceedings. Simpson, Pauline; Horstmann, Cora The 2023 OceanPractices: OBPS Workshop VII aimed at providing some “common” solutions to the 10 selected challenges set by the UN Ocean Decade for collective impact. The online workshop 09-13 October 2023 was divided into two sessions per day (each day about 3-4 hours in total with breaks), covering an introductory session including a Panel of distinguished speakers, with the rest of the week scheduled with Workshop Sessions addressing the UN Ocean Decade Challenges. The sessions offered plenty of time for discussion and Q & A. Each session addressed such questions as: "What kind of Ocean best practice should be developed for major topics (e.g. climate change, energy, environment)?", "Where are the gaps in best practices in your discipline?"; "Are best practices transversal, i.e., not silo-like?" or "Beyond best practices, what do we do?".

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Ocean Best Practices System Endorsement: Guidance for the Ocean Community, Version 2024-03-20. Bushnell, Mark; Pearlman, Jay This document provides guidelines and a template for the endorsement of ocean practices to be recognised by the Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS), an international IOC programme supported by the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE). Recommendations for endorsed practices will be submitted to the OBPS as described in this document. The recommendation will include the processes used for assessment, including participating multi-institutional organizations, and OBPS will validate the conformance to the process.

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Ocean Best Practices System Guidelines for Depositors, Version 2024-11-14 Simpson, Pauline This document will guide Depositors through the workflow stages and the process of completing metadata fields and submitting the full text file of their ocean methodology to OceanBestPractices......

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Pearlman, Jay Simpson, Pauline Karstensen, Johannes Buttigieg, Pier Luigi Pearlman, Francoise Waldmann, Christoph Hoerstmann, Cora https://repository.oceanbestpractices.org/handle/11329/2341 2023-08-08T15:13:53Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Improving Global and Regional Ocean Observing Through Best Practices and Standards. Pearlman, Jay; Simpson, Pauline; Karstensen, Johannes; Buttigieg, Pier Luigi; Pearlman, Francoise; Waldmann, Christoph; Hoerstmann, Cora As many of us know, the oceans play a key role in global issues such as climate change, food security, and human health. However, there are challenges to a real understanding of the oceans including their vast dimensions and internal complexity, efficient monitoring and predicting of the planet’s oceans evolutionary dynamics. Thus, the effort of ocean observing and analyses must be a collaborative effort of both regional and global scale. The 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. Thus, “ocean observing” are all activities of the value chain from preparing and conducting observations to impacts on society through applications of information. To meet the urgent planet-wide challenges we face, common methods across all aspects of ocean observing should be broadly adopted by the ocean community and, where appropriate, should evolve into. Best Practices and Standards. Thus , these Best Practices and Standards not only make the life of individual scientists easier but also contribute to a better usage of the collected information by other groups and organizations across the value chain.

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OceanPractices: Ocean Best Practices Workshop VI, 05 -19 October 2022 [Online]: Proceedings, Simpson, Pauline; Muller-Karger, Frank; Van Ruth, Paul; Pearlman, Jay The goal of the sixth Ocean Best Practices System workshop (OBPS VI) was to guide the development of best practices and operating practices, to promote their documentation, and to share them widely using the OBPS. The workshop featured two plenaries held in two time zones each and 19 theme sessions held over two weeks. These theme sessions were planned and held by separate communities of practice in ocean science, engineering, and technology. The workshop attracted the attention of a total of 1152 registrants from around the world, with some 600 people attending across time zones in the theme sessions and the plenaries. The workshop allowed the different communities of practice to focus on the creation, documentation and use of best practices working with members of the OBPS Steering Group. It drew on the experience of OBPS User Groups and stakeholders and provided an opportunity to gather feedback on how the system should evolve to better fulfil each community’s vision, mission, and needs. A common theme was that the broad ocean observing community appreciates the opportunities provided by the OBPS to focus on best practices. The community requested that this service be continued through additional workshops, opportunities to publish and share documents through the OBPS, and allow for cross-fertilization between different sectors of the community.

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Simpson, Pauline https://repository.oceanbestpractices.org/handle/11329/1615 2025-08-30T07:31:29Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

OceanBestPractices Guidelines for Collection Administrators, Version 2021-12-30. Simpson, Pauline This document is specifically for Collection Administrators who can do all that submitters and editors can do, but in addition: - Editing Records already in OceanBestPractices live repository - Remove a full text file - Add a new full text file - Add new metadata - Edit Existing Metadata Move a record to another Collection - Item Mapper - map the record to more than one Collection - Create new versions of a record to upload a new version file

2021-01-01T00:00:00Z Simpson, Pauline https://repository.oceanbestpractices.org/handle/11329/344.2 2024-04-30T23:08:10Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

OceanBestPractices Guidelines for Editors, Version 2024-04-30. Simpson, Pauline This document will guide Editors through the workflow stages and the process of approving, rejecting, or editing items submitted to OceanBestPractices.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Pearlman, Jay Buttigieg, Pier Luigi Bushnell, Mark Delgado, Claudia Hermes, Juliet Heslop, Emma Hörstmann, Cora Isensee, Kirsten Karstensen, Johannes Lambert, Arno Lara-Lopez, Ana Muller-Karger, Frank Munoz Mas, Cristian Pearlman, Francoise Pissierssens, Peter Przeslawski, Rachel Simpson, Pauline van Stavel, Jordan Venkatesan, Ramasamy https://repository.oceanbestpractices.org/handle/11329/1559 2024-07-22T18:29:15Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evolving and Sustaining Ocean Best Practices to enable Interoperability in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Pearlman, Jay; Buttigieg, Pier Luigi; Bushnell, Mark; Delgado, Claudia; Hermes, Juliet; Heslop, Emma; Hörstmann, Cora; Isensee, Kirsten; Karstensen, Johannes; Lambert, Arno; Lara-Lopez, Ana; Muller-Karger, Frank; Munoz Mas, Cristian; Pearlman, Francoise; Pissierssens, Peter; Przeslawski, Rachel; Simpson, Pauline; van Stavel, Jordan; Venkatesan, Ramasamy The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (Ocean Decade) challenges marine science to better inform and stimulate social and economic development while conserving marine ecosystems. To achieve these objectives, we must make our diverse methodologies more comparable and interoperable, expanding global participation and foster capacity development in ocean science through a new and coherent approach to best practice development. We present perspectives on this issue gleaned from the ongoing development of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS). The OBPS is collaborating with individuals and programs around the world to transform the way ocean methodologies are managed, in strong alignment with the outcomes envisioned for the Ocean Decade. However, significant challenges remain, including: (1) the haphazard management of methodologies across their lifecycle, (2) the ambiguous endorsement of what is “best” and when and where one method may be applicable vs. another, and (3) the inconsistent access to methodological knowledge across disciplines and cultures. To help address these challenges, we recommend that sponsors and leaders in ocean science and education promote consistent documentation and convergence of methodologies to: create and improve context-dependent best practices; incorporate contextualized best practices into Ocean Decade Actions; clarify who endorses which method and why; create a global network of complementary ocean practices systems; and ensure broader consistency and flexibility in international capacity development.

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Evolving and Sustaining Ocean Best Practices Workshop IV, 18; 21-25 & 30 Sep 2020 [Online]: Proceedings, Volumes 1 & 2. Simpson, Pauline; Pearlman, Francoise; Pearlman, Jay The 4th Evolving and Sustaining Ocean Best Practices Workshop was held online during the period 17-30 September 2020, addressing community needs for advanced method development and implementation in ocean observations, data management and applications. The workshop consisted of three plenary sessions and eleven Working Group meetings. These Working Groups, who met multiple times during 21-24 September, included topics in: Convergence of methods and endorsement of best practices Data and information management: towards globally scalable interoperability Developing community capacities for the creation and use of best practices Ethics and best practices for ocean observing and applications Fisheries Marine Litter/Plastics Omics/eDNA Partnership Building Sargassum Surface Radiation Uncertainty Quantification The workshop participants came from across the globe (see Figure 1 under Participants) and had a wide range of interests relating to the ocean. The workshop focused on ways that ocean observing across the value chain (from observations to end user decisions) can use best practices to improve interoperability and our knowledge of the oceans. Ocean practitioners collaboratively addressed best practices as well as recommendations for the Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS) which will guide its next implementation phase. The recommendations (see Section 8) will broaden community engagement and help the OBPS serve the community and advance efforts along the following key dimensions : Data, Information, Knowledge Endorsement of methodological documents by communities Uptake of methodologies by communities Convergence of methods across scales (thematic, local, regional, global) Development paths – how does a region/community build best practices? What does your region need? How can the OBPS better support that?

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