Benson, AbigailMurray, TylarTriñanes Fernández, Joaquín ÁngeldeWitt, Lynn M.2026-01-162026-01-162021-06Benson, Abigail, Tylar Murray, Gabrielle Canonico, Enrique Montes, Frank E. Muller-Karger, Maria T. Kavanaugh, Joaquin Trinanes, and Lynn M. Dewitt. "DATA MANAGEMENT AND INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS." Oceanography 34, no. 2 (2021): 130-141.https://hdl.handle.net/10347/45214Assessing the current state of and predicting change in the ocean’s biological and ecosystem resources requires observations and research to safeguard these valuable public assets. The Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) partnered with the Global Ocean Observing System Biology and Ecosystems Panel and the Ocean Biodiversity Information System to address these needs through collaboration, data standardization, and data sharing. Here, we describe the generalized MBON data processing flow, which includes several steps to ensure that data are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. By following this flow, data collected and managed by MBON have contributed to our understanding of the Global Ocean Observing System Essential Ocean Variables and demonstrated the value of web-based, interactive tools to explore and better understand environmental change. Although the MBON’s generalized data processing flow is already in practice, work remains in building ontologies for biological concepts, improving processing scripts for data standardization, and speeding up the data collection-to-sharing timeframeengThis is an open access article made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format as long as users cite the materials appropriately, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate the changes that were made to the original content. Images, animations, videos, or other third-party material used in articles are included in the Creative Commons license unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If the material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission directly from the license holder to reproduce the material.Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Ocean’s biological and ecosystem resourcesData ManagementObservationsEvolving Marine Biodiversity Observation Networkjournal article10.5670/oceanog.2021.2202377-617Xopen access