Here, we want to explain the encountered difficulties to covince data providers for providing their information to the EMODnet ingestion portal, and how we tried to solve them, although we didn¿t always achieved it. The difficulties were several, such as: arranging a face-to-face or virtual meetings to explain EMODnet; lack of awareness about the importance of databases and open data access; lack of knowledge of the EMODnet website; lack of interest for the second use of their data; reluctance to give information; lack of economic and/or personnel resources to organize all their data; no response; and distrust of potential loss of control of their data, which generates a lack of confidence to give more data. Some difficulties were resolved with the interplay of several actions such as: showing other cases of data providers of their nearby community whose data have already been ingested. Also, we have taught providers how to manage the EMODnet website to download data, etc. This action was good for waking up the awareness about the importance of open databases. We also try to convince provider that EMODnet is a good showcase for their data. Likewise, we insisted several times that providers look for and retrieve the information. Another action was to give them support for creating the metadata. Lessons learnt from these challenges that we faced, are that there is still a great part of the scientific community that doesn¿t know EMODnet and its importance and because of that the task to wake up data not only from scientists but also from industries, freelances and NGOs should continue

European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) Conference, 14-16 June 2021

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