Abstract
The Responsible Offshore Science Alliance (ROSA) is a nonprofit organization that provides for and advances regional scientific research, monitoring and understanding of fisheries and the interactions with blue economy activities in state and federal waters of the U.S. through collaboration and cooperation. ROSA’s Data Governance Program supports that mission by building data stewardship capacity and collaboratively developing processes, policies, standards, and workflows that maximize data value and impact. This document is designed to provide guidance around data management for the fisheries research and monitoring community as they scope, plan, and execute research and publish, manage, and share data.
This guidance can be cited by reference in contracts and/or data. It may be reused and remixed in contracts and scopes of work. It is CC-BY licensed.
This guidance applies to data generated through fisheries research and monitoring efforts conducted in U.S. Atlantic Waters. This includes, but is not limited to: biological sampling data, fisheries image data, socioeconomic and human dimensions data, acoustic telemetry data, environmental DNA (eDNA), plankton and oceanographic data, and derived data products (e.g., models, maps, and analytical outputs). It covers data collected across the lifecycle of a research or monitoring effort, from raw field data through to processed, analyzed, and synthesized outputs intended for publication or long-term preservation.
In the absence of existing guidance for this region, ROSA developed this document to provide researchers and data collectors with a comprehensive resource for managing and sharing these data types.