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A review of the International Seabed Authority database DeepData from a biological perspective: challenges and opportunities in the UN Ocean Decade

There is an urgent need for high-quality biodiversity data in the context of rapid environmental change. Nowhere is this need more urgent than in the deep ocean, with the possibility of seabed mining moving from exploration to exploitation, but where vast knowledge gaps persist. Regions of the seabe...

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Autores principales: Rabone, M, Horton, T, Jones, D O B, Simon-Lledó, E, Glover, A G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10064262/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36999559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/baad013
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author Rabone, M
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Jones, D O B
Simon-Lledó, E
Glover, A G
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description There is an urgent need for high-quality biodiversity data in the context of rapid environmental change. Nowhere is this need more urgent than in the deep ocean, with the possibility of seabed mining moving from exploration to exploitation, but where vast knowledge gaps persist. Regions of the seabed beyond national jurisdiction, managed by the International Seabed Authority (ISA), are undergoing intensive mining exploration, including the Clarion–Clipperton Zone (CCZ) in the Central Pacific. In 2019, the ISA launched its database ‘DeepData’, publishing environmental (including biological) data. Here, we explore how DeepData could support biological research and environmental policy development in the CCZ (and wider ocean regions) and whether data are findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR). Given the direct connection of DeepData with the regulator of a rapidly developing potential industry, this review is particularly timely. We found evidence of extensive duplication of datasets; an absence of unique record identifiers and significant taxonomic data–quality issues, compromising FAIRness of the data. The publication of DeepData records on the OBIS ISA node in 2021 has led to large-scale improvements in data quality and accessibility. However, limitations in the usage of identifiers and issues with taxonomic information were also evident in datasets published on the node, stemming from mismapping of data from the ISA environmental data template to the data standard Darwin Core prior to data harvesting by OBIS. While notable data-quality issues remain, these changes signal a rapid evolution for the database and significant movement towards integrating with global systems, through the usage of data standards and publication on the global data aggregator OBIS. This is exactly what has been needed for biological datasets held by the ISA. We provide recommendations for the future development of the database to support this evolution towards FAIR. Database URL https://data.isa.org.jm/isa/map
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spelling pubmed-100642622023-04-01 A review of the International Seabed Authority database DeepData from a biological perspective: challenges and opportunities in the UN Ocean Decade Rabone, M Horton, T Jones, D O B Simon-Lledó, E Glover, A G Database (Oxford) Original Article There is an urgent need for high-quality biodiversity data in the context of rapid environmental change. Nowhere is this need more urgent than in the deep ocean, with the possibility of seabed mining moving from exploration to exploitation, but where vast knowledge gaps persist. Regions of the seabed beyond national jurisdiction, managed by the International Seabed Authority (ISA), are undergoing intensive mining exploration, including the Clarion–Clipperton Zone (CCZ) in the Central Pacific. In 2019, the ISA launched its database ‘DeepData’, publishing environmental (including biological) data. Here, we explore how DeepData could support biological research and environmental policy development in the CCZ (and wider ocean regions) and whether data are findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR). Given the direct connection of DeepData with the regulator of a rapidly developing potential industry, this review is particularly timely. We found evidence of extensive duplication of datasets; an absence of unique record identifiers and significant taxonomic data–quality issues, compromising FAIRness of the data. The publication of DeepData records on the OBIS ISA node in 2021 has led to large-scale improvements in data quality and accessibility. However, limitations in the usage of identifiers and issues with taxonomic information were also evident in datasets published on the node, stemming from mismapping of data from the ISA environmental data template to the data standard Darwin Core prior to data harvesting by OBIS. While notable data-quality issues remain, these changes signal a rapid evolution for the database and significant movement towards integrating with global systems, through the usage of data standards and publication on the global data aggregator OBIS. This is exactly what has been needed for biological datasets held by the ISA. We provide recommendations for the future development of the database to support this evolution towards FAIR. Database URL https://data.isa.org.jm/isa/map Oxford University Press 2023-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10064262/ /pubmed/36999559 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/baad013 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rabone, M
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Simon-Lledó, E
Glover, A G
A review of the International Seabed Authority database DeepData from a biological perspective: challenges and opportunities in the UN Ocean Decade
title A review of the International Seabed Authority database DeepData from a biological perspective: challenges and opportunities in the UN Ocean Decade
title_full A review of the International Seabed Authority database DeepData from a biological perspective: challenges and opportunities in the UN Ocean Decade
title_fullStr A review of the International Seabed Authority database DeepData from a biological perspective: challenges and opportunities in the UN Ocean Decade
title_full_unstemmed A review of the International Seabed Authority database DeepData from a biological perspective: challenges and opportunities in the UN Ocean Decade
title_short A review of the International Seabed Authority database DeepData from a biological perspective: challenges and opportunities in the UN Ocean Decade
title_sort review of the international seabed authority database deepdata from a biological perspective: challenges and opportunities in the un ocean decade
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10064262/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36999559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/baad013
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