Creating a good research data management plan

Rob Hooft

2016/06/23

ROB HOOFT

n DTL = Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences

n DTL = Data, Technology, Learning

n Coordinator DATA

n Technical Coordinator ELIXIR-NL

GOALS FOR DATA MANAGEMENT

n Funders:

n Re-usable data

n Institutes:

n Reproducible science

n You, researcher:

n Results, less risk, no hassle

GOALS FOR DATA MANAGEMENT

n Funders:

n Re-usable data

n Institutes:

n Reproducible science

n You, researcher:

n Results, less risk, no hassle

DATA LIFE CYCLE

RESEARCH LIFE CYCLE

THE F A I R PRINCIPLES

Data should become:

nFindable

nAccessible

nInteroperable

nReusable

…for both humans and computers

FINDABLE

n Repository

n Domain-specific

n Institutional

n National

n Special

n Persistent Identifier

n Catalog

ACCESSIBLE

n Longevity

n Legal Conditions

n Embargo

n ICT

BMC Bioinformatics. 2014; 15(Suppl 11): S7.

ACCESSIBLE

n Longevity

n Legal Conditions

n Embargo

n ICT

INTEROPERABLE

n Format

n Terminology

Brussels çè Bruxelles

Cancer çè Malignant Neoplasm

REUSABLE

n Provenance

n Minimal metadata

n License

n Not only narrated

REUSABLE: EXAMPLE

http://euretos.com/

In preparing for battle I

have always found that

plans are useless, but

planning is indispensable

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Data Management Plan:

✅ F

✅ A

✅ I

✅ R