edu.ucar.opensky::articles:22569 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-25T15:32:35.276476 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7sq93gf https://doi.org/10.25607/OBP-13 https Related CreativeWork #1 Creating a weekly Harmful Algal Bloom bulletin. Version 1.0. [Best Practice Description Document] https://doi.org/10.25607/OBP-3 https Related CreativeWork #2 Evolving and Sustaining Ocean Best Practices Workshop 15 – 17 November 2017 Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Paris, France: Proceedings. Evolving and sustaining ccean best practices and standards for the next decade 2019-06-04T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7sq93gf https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00277 Pearlman, J. author Bushnell, M. author Coppola, L. author Karstensen, J. author Buttigieg, P. L. author Pearlman, F. author Simpson, P. author Barbier, M. author Muller-Karger, F. E. author Munoz-Mas, C. author Pissierssens, P. author Chandler, C. author Hermes, J. author Heslop, E. author Jenkyns, R. author Achterberg, E. P. author Bensi, M. author Bittig, H. C. author Blandin, J. author Bosch, J. author Bourles, B. author Bozzano, R. author Buck, J. J. H. author Burger, E. F. author Cano, D. author Cardin, V. author Llorens, M. C. author Cianca, A. author Chen, H. author Cusack, C. author Delory, E. author Garello, R. author Giovanetti, G. author Harscoat, V. author Hartman, S. author Heitsenrether, R. author Jirka, S. author Lara-Lopez, A. author Lantéri, N. author Leadbetter, A. author Manzella, G. author Maso, J. author McCurdy, Andrea Lynn author Moussat, E. author Ntoumas, M. author Pensieri, S. author Petihakis, G. author Pinardi, N. author Pouliquen, S. author Przeslawski, R. author Roden, N. P. author Silke, J. author Tamburri, M. N. author Tang, H. author Tanhua, T. author Telszewski, M. author Testor, P. author Thomas, J. author Waldmann, C. author Whoriskey, F. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher 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 ocean must be a collaborative effort of both regional and global scale. A 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. 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." 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, we introduce a new open access, permanent, digital repository of best practices documentation (oceanbestpractices.org ) that is part of the Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS). The new OBPS provides an opportunity space for the centralized and coordinated improvement of ocean observing methods. The OBPS repository employs user-friendly software to significantly improve discovery and access to methods. The software includes advanced semantic technologies for search capabilities to enhance repository operations. In addition to the repository, the OBPS also includes a peer reviewed journal research topic, a forum for community discussion and a training activity for use of 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. Using selected ocean observing examples, we show how the OBPS supports this objective. This paper lays out a future vision of ocean best practices and how OBPS will contribute to improving ocean observing in the decade to come. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright 2019 Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. None eng geoscientificInformation