D7.3: Polifonia Data Management Plan - final version (V0.9)
Creators: name: Scharnhorst, Andrea
name: Daga, Enrico
name: Fournier- S'niehotta, Raphaël
name: Gurrieri, Marco
name: de Berardinis, Jacopo
name: McDermott, James
name: Tripodi, Rocco
name: Daquino, Marilena
name: Renda, Giulia
name: Poltronieri, Andrea
name: Musumeci, Elena
name: Magnani, Fabrizio
name: van Kranenburg, Peter
name: Guillotel- Nothmann, Christophe
name: Bottini, Thomas
name: Ciroku, Fiorela
name: Clementi, Marta
name: Meroño-Peñuela, Albert
name: Turci, Monica
name: Marzi, Eleonora
name: Puglisi, Antonio
name: Uwasomba, Chukwudi
name: Carvalho, Jason
name: Alba Morales-Tirado
name: Bontje, Marloes
name: de Groot, Roosmarijn
name: Presutti, Valentina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Research Data Management in Polifonia is a firm part of the overall knowledge management in the project. This third DMP version documents the final status of data management using exclusively the perspective of the Polifonia Research Ecosystem approach and its living instance. As for the previous versions of the DMP, we use the template of the Open Research Data (ORDP). While for the first and second version of the DMP we deviated from just given answers to the usual questions, and discussed our approaches to the dimensions of the ORDP, this time we return to the original template in a more rigid way. In particular, in the section FAIR Data we answer all questions using examples from the Polifonia Research Ecosystem to illustrate our response. We add an introduction and conclusion section to the ORDP template.

In the section 1 Introduction we point to the specific role of the Polifonia Research Ecosystem approach in managing knowledge exchange and coordination of the knowledge production process in the Polifonia project and introduce into the main structure of the Research Ecosystem. In particular, we detail how the Data type component relates to other major component types such as Tools and Reports. We further illustrate the use of the github based implementation of the Research Ecosystem including the Polifonia Ecosystem (v2.0) website, which we recommend to visit next to reading this document.

We continue following the structure of the Open Research Data Pilot template with its sections: Data Summary; FAIR Data; Allocation of Resources; Data security; Ethical Aspects; Other Aspects.

– Data summary describes the final data components of the Polifonia Research Ecosystem. To enable comparison along the various DMP versions we provide (again) in an appendix to this section the updated table of (envisioned) data sources, called "Overview of the main sources used in the pilots".

– FAIR Data details all steps to mae data FAIR and give examples from the Research Ecosystem, concentrating on Data components which are part of the subtypes Ontology and Knowledge Graph.

– Allocation of resources details how in Polifonia FAIRification is not an action to be done after the project, but how it is intrinsic part of the whole research design of the project. We also list here the main webservices and their maintenance strategy.

– Data Security we give an overview about the Polifonia Zenodo community

– Ethical Aspects we focus on copyright and licensing issues. We detail the practical approach Polifonia has pioneered for FAIR data re-use, and the formalisation steps to include licence issues in machine readable representation of data, described in another deliverable.

– In the section Other Aspects we introduce into a survey of re-usuability which will be set out in the remaining project time, to further motivate us to increase the impact of the project.

The Polifonia Research Ecosystem will continue to develop, being filled with more components and enriched annotations until the end of the project. There are upcoming deliverables which will detail the technical backbone of the Ecosystem. In this DMP we use the ’now’ state of the Ecosystem to check all DMP relevant issues. In this way, writing this DMP is also an evaluation of the use of the Research Ecosystem for DMP purposes. 

The DMP closes with a short section 3 Conclusions summarising the lessons learned and ideas to transfer the research Ecosystem approach to other collaborative settings. By connecting the lsessons learned to the experiences with the Research Ecosystem we point to the possible generic value of such an approach for research data management in open, innovative and interdisciplinary research projects.