Making data FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) and open benefits both for the data provider and future users.  In this webinar, we will discuss how making data FAIR and open has allowed us to develop smart and efficient data management workflows in the context of the EMBRC EMO BON (European Marine Omics Biodiversity Observation Network) project. By focusing on the interoperability and reusability of our (meta)data, codes, and analysis results, we can use the web itself to make our data findable and accessible. We will then present examples of metadata curation from EMBL’s Planetary biology flagship expedition TREC (Traversing European Coastlines), an expedition to study coastal ecosystems and their response to the environment, from molecules to communities. We will see how one can go FAIR, Open and Smart by registering sample metadata at EMBL-EBI’s BioSamples service using checklists, controlled vocabularies and ontologies.

Who is this course for?

This webinar is open to researchers, staff and data scientists at all career stages interested in how to manage data in a FAIR and open way.

This event is part of a webinar series organised by the STANDFLOW project, an initiative supported by EMBL’s Planetary biology Transversal Theme. STANDFLOW is about a collaborative effort towards creating a standardised data management workflow. The project primarily utilises imaging data derived from samples collected through the TREC (Traversing European Coastlines) and the Roscoff Culture Collection. For details on all topics covered in this series and registration information, please visit the following link: How to organise and share my imaging data?: Multimodal data management for marine biologists, and environmental scientists and imaging specialists.

Outcomes

By the end of the webinar, you will be able to:

• Describe the core principles of FAIR, Open and Smart data management practices and how they relate to research workflows
• Apply practical strategies to improve the curation of metadata in your own research context
• Discuss the complexities of metadata curation for large-scale international projects like TREC

DOI: 10.6019/TOL.DataManagement-EMOBON-TREC-w.2025.00001.1

This webinar took place on 21 May 2025. Please click the 'Watch video' button to view the recording.