Frontiers in Marine Science (Jan 2021)

Perspectives on Documenting Methods to Create Ocean Best Practices

  • Cora Hörstmann,
  • Cora Hörstmann,
  • Pier Luigi Buttigieg,
  • Pauline Simpson,
  • Jay Pearlman,
  • Anya M. Waite

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.556234
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7

Abstract

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This perspective outlines how authors of ocean methods, guides, and standards can harmonize their work across the scientific community. We reflect on how documentation practices can be linked to modern information technologies to improve discoverability, interlinkages, and thus the evolution of distributed methods into common best practices within the ocean community. To show how our perspectives can be turned into action, we link them to guidance on using the IOC-UNESCO Ocean Best Practice System to support increased collaboration and reproducibility during and beyond the UN Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development.

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