Building an Offshore Wind & Wildlife Data Catalog

As part of RWSC’s mission to facilitate coordinated research and analysis for wildlife, marine ecosystems, and offshore wind, the Data Governance Subcommittee has been working with other taxa- and habitat-focused RWSC Subcommittees to identify and recommend long-term storage options for each type of data described in RWSC’s Science Plan. In addition, entities that fund and/or require offshore wind and wildlife or environmental data collection and research have described a need for simple, long-term storage and access to data that they have funded, as well as easy and centralized public discovery of, and access to, these datasets and research outputs.

An Offshore Wind & Wildlife Data Catalog would index existing recommended data repositories for each type of offshore wind and wildlife data and present a single searchable list with links to individual datasets in each repository. For this concept to function, several components are needed, including standardized and searchable metadata and a known list of repositories to index.

The work to establish these components and implement the Data Catalog concept is listed here:


Updates to recommended repositories for publication and long-term storage of data related to offshore wind & wildlife

Version 2
Feb 7, 2025

Essential metadata guidelines for offshore wind & wildlife data

Metadata describing every dataset collected with respect to offshore wind and wildlife (OW&W) research and monitoring are required to ensure that all data can be found…
Jan 3, 2025

Data management and governance glossary

This glossary is meant to serve as a useful reference. It is an evergreen document and will be updated and added to as often as necessary.
Nov 18, 2024

Progress towards understanding the offshore wind and wildlife data landscape and building a Data Catalog

Version 1
Aug 23, 2024
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