Over the last years, collected, generated, or used data in the development of research projects has received the attention of the scientific community and the research management agencies. At European level, the Horizon 2020 Program and its pilot called Open Research Data have promoted the "Research Data Management" (RDM).
This concept embraces different activities related to the creation, organization, structuring, storage, preservation and sharing of data. For this reason, financed projects by the European Commission require the development of a Data Management Plan (DMP) and the data deposit in accordance with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) with the aim to increase the efficiency and transparency of the research through a fast dissemination of results and to ease the reuse.
In order to help researchers with their projects, it is necessary they have data management plans. A data management plan is a concept that includes tasks such as the collection of data used, its organization, documentation, storage and preservation. Therefore, the aim is to prepare documents that describe the life cycle of the collected and generated research data during the project.
CORA. eiNa DMP (eiNa DMP) is a tool that allows, easily and through templates, to create, review and share data management plans that allow to fulfil the funding agencies requirements.
eiNa DMP features allow its users to obtain the following benefits:
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Compliance with the requirements of funding agencies Data management plan creation helps to fulfil the requirements of European financial support or the National Plan, inter alia. |
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Less time and effort Templates are included in order to guide the reasercher during the data management plan creation. |
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Collaboration with other researchers It enables to share the data management plan with other researchers and grants them reading, edition and co-editions rights. |
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Data management plan in open access The data management plan can be published in open access and can havea static URL. |
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Customization Each participating institution is allowed to customize their area and add templates. |
eiNa DMP uses an open-source software called DMPRoadmap, developed by Digital Curation Centre and the University of California Curation Center.
DMPRoadmap software is widely used around the world and among its users in Europe there is: DMPOnline in United Kingdom, DMP OPIDoR in France, DMPonline.be in Belgium or PGDonline in Spain.
The coordination of the project is carried by CSUC, that encourages the exchange of experiences and mutual help between the community, formed by the Catalan universities and research centres, to develop expertise and good practices in research data management.
If you want to take part or want more information, you can contact dmp-contacte@csuc.cat
