ELIXIR-CONVERGE D3.1 Assembled starter toolkit
Creators: name: Goble, Carole
name: Alper, Pinar
name: Droesbeke, Bert
name: D'Anna, Flora
name: Andrabi, Munazah
name: Jetten, Mijke
name: Coppens, Frederik
name: Hooft, Rob
name: Cook, Martin
name: van Gelder, Celia
name: Faria, Daniel
name: Jareborg, Niclas
name: Englund, Marcus
name: Kallberg, Yvonne
name: Wittig, Ulrike
name: Bösl, Korbinian
name: Jonassen, Inge
name: Child, Chris
name: Collin, Olivier
name: Bianchini, Federico
name: Berka, Karel
name: Perez Sitja, Xènia
name: Rossier, Grégoire
name: Ben-Avraham, Danny
name: Pergl, Robert
name: Portell, Laura
name: Martelli, Pier Luigi
name: Fuchs, Siiri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: ELIXIR
CONVERGE
RDMKit
Common Data Management Toolkit
Data Management
DSW
Data Stewardship Wizard
FAIR
Research Data Management
RDM

description: An ELIXIR Common Data Management Toolkit is intended to support researchers and data stewards<br> to enable lifecycle management for their research data, according to international standards, and<br> integrated in the national context. The goal is to support FAIR by Design: from the first steps of<br> producing FAIR data and Data Management Planning to the final steps of depositing data in public<br> archives through data brokerage pathways from data management systems (Task 1.2) and enabling<br> its reuse. The vision of the Toolkit has matured into three, interlinked, streams:<br> 1. The RDMKit, a website-based toolkit designed to guide life scientists and data stewards in<br> their efforts to better manage their research data.<br> 2. Tool Assemblies, which are examples of combining tools to cover stages of the RDM<br> Lifecycle and assembly patterns to report how tools can be combined and replaced by local<br> specialisations.<br> 3. Data Stewardship Wizard, which leads data stewards through decision trees to choose the<br> right tools, resources and practices when planning their data management. <br> WP3 has concentrated on the RDMKit. This provides rapid and maximum benefit to the Node’s Life<br> Science communities and effectively coordinates and integrates the work of the CONVERGE WPs<br> around a common goal. It also provides a timely resource for funders such as the EC’s Open Science<br> Unit during development of the HorizonEurope programme. The RDMKit is targeted at researchers,<br> data managers and data stewards in laboratories, facilities or universities; project consortium<br> coordinators and funding agencies and policy makers.<br> The RDMKit’s underlying technical infrastructure has been established using GitHub<br> (https://github.com/elixir-europe/rdmkit) and the contribution and editorial processes put in place.<br> Content has been assembled through hackathons/contentathons. This deliverable reports on the conception, design, implementation of the RDMKit, its open<br> contribution, review and editorial processes, gives screenshot examples and lays out the next steps. The RDMKit is available at https://rdm.elixir-europe.org/ and https://rdmkit.elixir-europe.org/<br> (aliases) and will be internally beta released for review and awareness raising on 31 January 2021<br> and publicly released on 31 March 2021.