D1.2 Data Management Plan (Interim Version)

The data management procedures that are developed and implemented during the SUBMERSE project are presented in this document as a first version 1, in that it is an integral part of the SUBMERSE project to devise an optimal management for the very complex SUBMERSE data – continuously streamed, in vast quantities, from several locations, with several bottom-of-ocean sensors, potentially providing highly sensitive data. The data initially unintelligible, is to be repeatedly filtered and processed, ending up significantly reduced in research community repositories, as Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) data. I.e. FAIR compliant Distributed Acoustic Sensor (DAS)i and State of Polarisation (SOP)ii data, of high value to a number of research domains. 

This Data Management Plan (DMP) is based on the Horizon Europe Data Management Template. In this version, we describe the framework for data acquisition, scrubbing, storage, and publication to the best of our understanding six months into the project, where part of the project is concerned with defining many of the details now noted as decisions to be taken. When any significant changes to the Data Management practices within the SUBMERSE project occur, an updated version of the DMP will be published. 

This document describes extensively the importance of open and FAIR data to the SUBMERSE project rational, simultaneously taking into account the potentially military dual-use nature of the raw data being generated, which therefore cannot be immediately made openly available. It is a clear objective for SUBMERSE to develop an instrument for scientific applications. The DMP is crucial in ensuring that scientific applications are impeded as little as possible by security restrictions. The plan for the development of automated scrubbing mechanisms and long-term storage of – a small part of – the streamed data, are described. Even though a separate task (T1.3) is dedicated to guidelines around ethics and security we also discuss them in this DMP version, since the DMP is very much dependant on security agreements with national authorities, impacting the overall instrument architecture and hence the DMP. 

The ethics and security guidelines from T1.3 will be integrated into a final version of the DMP near the end of the project, in dialogue with the project’s Security Advisory Committee, as well as planed National Data Access Committees.