Author: Szoelloesi-Brenig, Vera
Last saved by: Riegler, Barbara
Company: VolkswagenStiftung

7 Questions – Basic Data Management Plan

Please use this basic data management plan if you have not yet decided upon the target repositorium in which you intend to store the project research data. If you have decided upon the target repositorium, please use the data management plan of the target repositorium.

Due to an increasingly data driven science, research data has become a paramount foundation for and result of scientific work. The heterogeneity of such data (raw data such as measurement data, laboratory findings, audio-visual information, texts, survey data; secondary data such as statistics, simulations, annotations) corresponds to the heterogeneity of different disciplines, procedures and research questions. The secure storage of relevant research data is important for the replicability of experiments; it is equally important as a starting point for new research questions. The VolkswagenStiftung supports the longterm storage of and the free access to research data, making allowance for respective legal questions. 

(1) Which existing data/data collections will be employed in the project? Is the data freely available (open data) or do you have to consider intellectual property rights or privacy issues?
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(2) Which data/types of data will be generated during the process of the project? What kind of data volume is to be expected?
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(3) How will you organize the data: Which formats and standards will be applied to storing the data? Which standards do you employ for generating the metadata and which formats to store respective metadata? Will you assign persistent identifiers (PID) to the data to ensure a lasting referencing and citing?
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(4) Are the exploitation rights and the usage rights of the generated data defined (e.g. by awarding creative commons licences)? The definition of respective rights needs to be clarified between the individual researchers of the collaborating project teams in the course of the project, as well as after the completion of the project for the research community.
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(5) In which repositories and for how long will the project-generated data and metadata be stored and made accessible after project completion?
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(6) Who is responsible for the adequate handling of the research data in the project?
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(7) When is the data available to the scientific community? And in which licence category?
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