KH, NP, RR, NF was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council funded DeepLinks project NE/K011855/1,
https://nerc.ukri.org/. The workshop was funded by the Deep Sea Biology Society’s Lounsbery Workshop Award
https://dsbsoc.org/. ALA and CLM are supported by Grant Number SFI/15/IA/3100 to ALA from Science Foundation Ireland
http://www.sfi.ie/ and the Marine Institute
https://www.marine.ie/Home/home under the Investigators Programme co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund 2014-2020,
https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/funding/erdf/. AB-H was supported by the Oceanic Observatory of Madeira project (M1420-01-0145-FEDER-000001-Observatório Oceânico da Madeira- OOM) co-financed by the Madeira Regional Operational Programme (Madeira 14-20) under the Portugal 2020 strategy through the European Regional Development Fund
https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/funding/erdf/, and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal)
https://www.fct.pt/, through the strategic project UID/MAR/04292/2013 granted to MARE. JV is supported by Oil and Gas UK
https://oilandgasuk.co.uk/ and the ATLAS project funded by the European Commission’s H2020 Scheme
https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en through Grant Agreement 678760. HAR was supported by the CeNCOOS Partnership: Ocean Information for Decision Makers (award number NA16NOS0120021)
https://www.cencoos.org/about/program/funding. DOBJ was supported by the UK Natural Environment Research Council National Capability funding: “Climate Linked Atlantic Section Science” (CLASS), grant number NE/R015953/1
https://nerc.ukri.org/. DW was supported by NOAA Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program
https://deepseacoraldata.noaa.gov/. LW and PS were supported by the Garfield Weston Foundation
https://garfieldweston.org/. TM was supported by Program Investigador FCT (IF/01194/2013), IFCT Exploratory Project (IF/01194/2013/CP1199/CT0002) from the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (POPH and QREN)
https://www.fct.pt/, PO2020 MapGes (Acores-01-0145-FEDER-000056)
http://www.azores.gov.pt/Portal/en/principal/, and H2020 ATLAS (grant agreement no. 678760)
https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en. RV was funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT/SFRH/BD/84030/2012)
https://www.fct.pt/, with additional support provided by Cefas through the Science Futures programme
https://www.cefas.co.uk/. JRX research is funded by the H2020 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation through the SponGES project (grant agreement No. 679849)
https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en and partially supported by the Strategic Funding UID/Multi/04423/2019 through national funds provided by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)
https://www.fct.pt/ and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/funding/erdf/, in the framework of the programme PT2020. We would like to make it clear that one of the co-authors is employed by a commercial company (Gardline Limited). This company provided support in the form of salary, travel and subsistence for Michael Thompson to attend the workshop held to discuss end user needs and database structure, as well as to contribute to the preparation of the manuscript. We would also like to make clear that this commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.