Towards a Best Practice for Developing Best Practices in Ocean Observation (BP4BP): Supporting Methodological Evolution through Actionable Documentation

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)