An e-Infrastructure for FAIR Data Management of Underwater Observatories

The study of global phenomena such as the impact of the oceans on climate change requires extensive and high-quality data. Over the last decade underwater observatories became a mature technology, allowing the collection of high-resolution data on a continuous basis. However, the management of such large volumes of heterogeneous data proves to be a challenge. This work presents the OBSEA’s underwater observatory data management e-Infrastructure. This infrastructure leverages existing open-source tools and community-accepted standards to build a modular yet robust data management framework, supporting the storage and exchange of multi-parametric marine data following the FAIR principles.