Data Management & Analytics

Data collection is a costly and time-consuming business. Data collected for one purpose can be used for another purpose. Making data available in a way that people can find it and use it maximises the benefit that can be derived from data collected with public funds. This is the principle of open data at the heart of AQUARIUS.  

How will we implement an open data strategy in AQUARIUS?

All scientific teams using the research infrastructures will commit to adopting a common AQUARIUS approach for managing and publishing the data they collect, as well as any resulting data products and knowledge (in the form of scientific papers, for example). This approach is laid out in the AQUARIUS Data Management Plan.

The scientific teams funded through the AQUARIUS transnational access programme will collect many new and diverse types of data as they use and combine multiple different observation infrastructures. AQUARIUS is committed to making these data open and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) to maximise their re-use by other actors – be they research scientists, companies carrying out environmental impact assessments, public monitoring bodies, or civil society organisations.

What training will be made available in data management and analytics?

AQUARIUS will also introduce and educate the scientific teams in the opportunities of open science as promoted and encouraged by the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The scientists will be able to explore and make use of the Blue-Cloud Virtual Research Environment (VRE) and EDITO (the public infrastructure for the European Digital Twin of the Ocean) for further analyses and processing of AQUARIUS data into new FAIR data products and knowledge.