Enhancing data mobilisation through a centralised data repository for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.): Providing the resources to promote an ecosystem-based management framework.

Diack, Graeme; Bull, Colin D.; Akenhead, Scott; Stap, Tim van der; Johnson, Brett T.; Rivot, Étienne; Patin, Rémi; Hernvann, Pierre-Yves; Schubert, Aidan; Bird, Tom; Saunders, M.; Crozier, W. W.

doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2022.101746

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“…A good deal of scientific information is still cloistered behind journal paywalls (Nguyen et al, 2019) or archived on physical hard drives, inaccessible to the general public. Scientific data publishing is recognized as being an important area of improvement required to advance science (Roche et al, 2015;Wilkinson et al, 2016) and salmon fisheries management (Bull et al, 2022;Diack et al, 2022;Westley et al, 2021). Collectively, the salmon countries bordering the North Pacific Ocean generate enormous amounts of data related to salmon and their habitat through national or academic research, yet much of that is not available to data-intensive science.…”

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Data Mobilization Through the International Year of the Salmon Ocean Observing System

Johnson¹,

Stap²

2023

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Data mobilization—the process of making data available for appropriate re-use—remains a key barrier in effective salmon management. Data mobilization facilitates data sharing, discovery and reuse, and leads to increased citations, synthesis data products, meta-analyses and robust management-decision support-tools. The International Year of the Salmon High Seas (IYS) Expeditions in 2019, 2020, and 2022 presented a challenge and opportunity for data mobilization efforts due to the scale, volume, diversity of data, and number of nations involved. Here we demonstrate how we mobilized this salmon ocean ecology data—given the international scope of the project—through a natural alignment to the United Nations’ Global Ocean Observing System and Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Under this framework datasets were catalogued using metadata records, assigned digital object identifiers, and published to a web accessible data catalogue (https://iys.hakai.org). Where possible, pre-existing community-developed and international data and metadata standards were adopted and data were also published in global open-access repositories. Both the sociocultural and technical solutions implemented deepen the impact of the IYS and lay a foundation and clear path forward for salmon and oceanographic data producing institutions, commissions, foundations, or projects interested in contributing to international data-intensive salmon and oceanographic sciences.

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