Interoperable Data Management and Instrument Control Experiences with the EMSO Generic Instrument Module at OBSEA

International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems (IMDIS 2018), 5-7 November 2018, Barcelona.-- 2 pages, 1 figureEMSO Generic Instrument Module (EGIM) is designed to consistently and continuously acquire physical parameters of interest to a broad range of marine scientific disciplines covered by the EMSO ERIC. This research infrastructure provides accurate records of marine environmental changes coming from local nodes throughout European Seas. EGIM is able to operate on any EMSO node, mooring line, and seabed station, cabled or standalone, and surface buoy. In fact, a central function of EGIM within theEMSO infrastructure is to have a number of ocean site locations where the same set of core variables are measured homogeneously: using the same hardware, same sensor references, same qualification methods, same calibration methods, same data format and access, and same maintenance procedures. [...]Peer Reviewe