Documenting FAIR and Dublin Core for Maritime Legal Evaluation

The EU's primary legal frameworks enable coordinated access to spatial and in-situ data about ocean activities, promoting the discovery and use of scientific data and metadata, including documentation on satellite and in-situ observation systems. This analysis explores the application of FAIR principles to the software codes, data, and tools used by the Space Situational Awareness (SSA) program, focusing on the legal evaluation of maritime spatial uses of Dublin Core. It suggests actions to support the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) to engage data citation from an ontology-based framework.