The DSM Data Portal powered by the DeepSea Monitoring Group at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for ocean Research Kiel is an implementation of the Web-based open-source (geospatial) content management system GeoNode (https://geonode.org).

　　Providing sustainable access to our research data is the key to prevent loss of knowledge not only at working group level, but also at institute level. The System therefore is mainly used as a data catalogue for the working group and as a platform to share datasets with users from GEOMAR or other institutes for example in the light of the CONMAR project.

　　The DSM Data Portal amends GEOMAR's institutional research data software towards FAIR research data. In any institutional data management interoperability remains the main challenge. Due to its standardized protocols and expandable open-source software stack GeoNode has the potential to overcome this challenge.

　　GeoNode is a geospatial content management system, a platform for the management and publication of geospatial data. It brings together mature and stable open-source software projects under a consistent and easy-to-use interface allowing non-specialized users to share data and create interactive maps.

　　Data management tools built into GeoNode allow for integrated creation of data, metadata, and map visualizations. Each dataset in the system can be shared publicly or restricted to allow access to only specific users. Social features like user profiles and rating systems allow for the development of communities around each platform to facilitate the use, management, and quality control of the data the GeoNode instance contains.

　　It is also designed to be a flexible platform that software developers can extend, modify or integrate against to meet requirements in their own applications.