ICES Guidelines for Reference Management Best Practices

This document provides an overview of the reference data management processes executed within ICES Vocabularies and any related thematic databases. The document includes a set of recommendations and guidelines for best practices in reference data management. Reference data management is instrumental to any level of reference requesting and processing related to ICES dataflows, as well as to securing implementation of the FAIR data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).