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This document will guide Editors through the workflow stages and the process of approving, rejecting, or editing items submitted to OceanBestPractices. Published Current N/A Multi-organisational Method

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 Published Current N/A International Method

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? Published Refereed Current 14.A Manual (incl. handbook, guide, cookbook etc)

This Best Practice document template including metadata recommendations is provided by the Ocean Best Practices System as suggested content and format for the creation of new Best Practice documents for ocean applications etc. This is version 2023-06-26 created with the help of a small group from the ocean observing community. It is expected that with usage by the community updated versions may be issued. Published Current 14.A Mature Multi-organisational Specification of criteria

This Best Practice document template is provided by the Ocean Best Practices System as recommended content and format for the creation of new Best Practice documents for data management. This is version 2023-06-26 created with the help of a small group from the ocean observing community. It is expected that with usage by the community updated versions may be issued. Published Current 14.A Mature Multi-organisational

The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) best practice ‘endorsement’ process has been developed in cooperation with the Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS), an Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC joint IODE/GOOS) Project which aims to support the ocean community in developing and sharing best practices. The endorsement process was approved by the GOOS Steering Committee 1st October 2020. Published Refereed Current 14.A Manual (incl. handbook, guide, cookbook etc)

In this document, we provide details on how to best use the Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS) templates, thus allowing greater discovery, machine readability, sharing and understandability of methods and best practices (Buttigieg et al. 2019). This document clarifies how to optimally populate the different sections of an OBPS template. We describe how those sections can help the OBPS evolve each submission towards more global best practices. Further, we discuss key challenges in developing methods into community-wide best practices. Published Refereed Current 14.A TRL 7 System prototyping demonstration in an operational environment (ground or space) Best Practice Manual (incl. handbook, guide, cookbook etc)

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 oceans 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. In this document, “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, methods across all aspects of ocean observing should be broadly adopted by the ocean community and, where appropriate, should evolve into “ocean best practices” or standards. The OBPS provides an opportunity space for the centralized and coordinated improvement of ocean observing methods. 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, there is now an open access, permanent, digital repository of best practices documentation (oceanbestpractices.org) that is part of the Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS). In addition to the repository, the OBPS includes a peer reviewed journal research topic, a forum for community discussion and a training activity for creating and using 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. The Ocean Best Practices Workshop has now become an annual event with Workshop I, Paris 2017 and Workshop II, Paris 2018. The 2019 Workshop III in Oostende encouraged maximum audience participation and was structured with hour-long panels followed by discussion. This format was effective in stimulating ideas and discussions to lay out a future vision of ocean best practices and how OBPS will contribute to improving ocean observing in the decade to come. Breakout Sessions were also a major part of the agenda, to provide opportunities for participants to share insights and importantly to make recommendations to the Panel on Vision for the Next Decade and ultimately the OBPS Steering Group. Published Refereed Current 14.A Manual (incl. handbook, guide, cookbook etc)