SEAwise Report on Requirements for Transparency and Quality Control

This report describes the common protocol for producing openly-available, quality assuring data and methods used in SEAwise. SEAwise data and methods are all data collected, processed, used or stored in connection with the SEAwise project. Making quality assured data openly available is a key priority in SEAwise in accordance with the FAIR principles: Ensuring that data are findable, openly accessible, interoperable and available for increased re-use.

The processes in place to ensure this are described in this report. SEAwise data are divided into four types: •Quantitative data are organised in the SEAwise quantitative metadatabase, listing primary data sources and responsible parties for these •Qualitative data from interviews and workshops are organised in the SEAwise qualitative metadatabase, listing primary data sources and responsible parties for these •Software code will be available at the SEAwise Github after the first year of the project. •Reports and other publications (scientific and otherwise) are available on the SEAwise website.

All data and models are evaluated using the SEAwise Output Quality Assurance Process.