WORK PACKAGE 1: Delivering Essential Biodiversity Variables: Local to Global Biodiversity (meta)Data for Coastal and Marine Systems

Work Package 1 will co-develop and establish robust and lasting specifications for biodiversity (meta)data exchange with European and global biodiversity systems and develop lightweight proof-of-concept implementations to validate their fitness for purpose.

Work Package Objectives

Establish a lightweight project level FAIR aligned data management approach to collect complete and quality controlled (meta)data ready for flexible distribution over the web.

Establish through consultation with relevant stakeholders in WP6 digital exchange specifications to transmit the project’s digital outputs to: (a) The Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs) (with the GOOS Biology and Ecosystems Panel) and the Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) (with GEO BON’s data management teams) (b) European environmental monitoring agencies (via the EEA and/or NFPs and/or MFSD/WFD).

Progress highlights

2024

2025

The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) hired a new postdoc to contribute to the establishment of a lightweight system to manage project (meta)data.

The WP1 partners of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Marine Biological Association (MBA) went to Sitges in Spain to showcase the MARCO-BOLO Data Management Plan (DMP) at the second Co-Design/Co-Creation Workshop. The workshop was part of the event “The Future of Marine Biodiversity Monitoring in Europe” organised by the ACTeon research consultancy for the Joint Research Center.

MARCO-BOLO (meta)data is live and circulating in the system. Find it free access here: https://github.com/marco-bolo

The WP1 partners of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Marine Biological Association (MBA) explained the importance of Improving Biodiversity (meta)data flow: Standards and Strategies in a recorded webinar, part of MARCO-BOLO’s sister project alliance.

The technical Work Packages of MARCO-BOLO are interacting with WP1 to standardise all their (meta)data using the MARCO-BOLO Data Management Plan (DMP). WP1 is working on improving transparency and trust within academic (meta)data.

Lead partner:
AWI

Contact:
Pier Luigi Buttigieg (AWI)｜pier.buttigieg@awi.de
Dan Lear (MBA) | dble@MBA.ac.uk

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