OceanSITES, as an authoritative and trusted organization, seeks to better serve time series of global ocean observations obtained by projects from around the world. While the data formats are uniform, each individual project has its own mission objective and time frame, and most of the OceanSITES data are not served as long aggregated time-series. Though the OceanSITES community identified the long timeseries as the critical OceanSITES product, historically, these timeseries were not being sent to the GDAC.

The goal of this project is to improve the OceanSITES data systems for both data providers and data users, and in this way make the OceanSITES data more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR). By doing this, the OceanSITES data holdings will be increased through increased data submissions, and OceanSITES data will be more usable and more valuable. This effort will address these objectives through software development, establishing improved metadata interchange, reduced data submission overhead, effective data discovery and access.