PICE S TECHNICAL REPORT No. 2 , 2024 - Report of the Study Group on

The purpose of SG-DATA is to provide key considerations and recommendations to the Technical Committee on Data Exchange (TCODE) and Science Board for modernizing and streamlining data and information management and sharing within PICES. [...] The following recommendations are intended to incentivize a culture of internal and external data sharing within and across participating groups in PICES and its partners, improve ocean data literacy, and foster community-adopted best practices and FAIR-compliant data discovery, accessibility, and reuse. [...] Building on barriers identified at the PICES-2022 Workshop on “Openly discoverable, accessible, and reusable data and information in the UN Decade” (Appendices 5 and 6), an annual survey for PICES members is recommended to continue identifying barriers to data sharing and to monitor the adoption of data management and sharing practices, and familiarity with domain-specific repositories and standar. [...] The timely, free and unrestricted international sharing of oceanographic data, metadata, products, and services is essential for a wide variety of purposes and benefits, including the prediction of weather and climate, the operational forecasting of the marine environment, the preservation of life, economic welfare, safety and security of society, the mitigation of human-induced changes in the mar. [...] The WG-DATA will build upon the recommendations of the Study Group on Encouraging Data Awareness and Increased Transmission and Accessibility (SG- DATA) and provide a comprehensive strategy for modernizing and streamlining data and information management and sharing practices within PICES.