**Introduction**

</th> </tr> </table>

##  1.1 Purpose

IMAGINE is a Horizon 2020 project with the main objective to develop a new
Electro-Mechanical Generator (EMG) for wave energy applications. The EMG will
have direct commercial applications and is based on proprietary technology
owned by the project lead partner. This Data Management Plan (DMP) is an
update to the first DMP, which was published in M6 (August 2018), and will
review the data that is and will be created, documented, stored and share in
the IMAGINE project.

The first DMP detailed the generated data that would be exploited according to
the Open Research Data (ORD) guidance and adopting the Findable, Accessible,
Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) approach whilst protecting the results due
to commercial sensitivities related to the development of a commercial
technology.

The main purpose of this intermediate version of the DMP is to update the list
of potential Open Access information and documents, as determined in the first
DMP, and indicate any changes within the consortium.

The previous and first version of the DMP was published in M6 (August 2018) of
the IMAGINE project, the final version with a final review will be presented
in M30 (August 2020) of the project.

##  1.2 Scope

The main scope of the first version of the DMP (D8.3) was providing an
overview of the results generated within the IMAGINE project and indicating
the potential open access documents following the ORD guidance, without going
into the specific communication and dissemination strategy as this is
discussed in the Plan for the Exploitation and Dissemination of Results (PEDR
D8.4). The DMPs also do not report on the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
as this is part of the Project Management Plan (D1.2).

The scope of this intermediate version of the DMP (D8.6) is building on the
initial DMP and provides an update to the list of general and underlying
datasets and summary level reports that were identified as potentially
suitable for sharing and dissemination.

##  1.3 Definitions

This section provides definitions for terms used in this document.  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

Project partners/ consortium

</th>  
<th>

The organization constituted for the purposed of the IMAGINE project
comprising of:

  * UMBRAGROUP spa (UMBRA), 

  

  * VGA srl (VGA), 

  

  * Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore (BV), 

  

  * K2Management Lda (K2M), formerly Cruz Atcheson Consulting Engineers (CA), • Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet (NTNU), 

  

  * The University of Edinburgh (UEDIN). 

  

</th> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Dataset

</td>  
<td>

Digital information created in the course of research, but which is not a
published research output. Research data excludes purely administrative
records. The highest priority research data is that which underpins a research
output. Research data do not include publications, articles, lectures or
presentations.

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Data Type [1]

</td>  
<td>

  * R: Document, report (excluding the periodic and final reports) 

  

  * DEM: Demonstrator, pilot, prototype, plan designs 

  

  * DEC: Websites, patents filing, press & media actions, videos, etc. 

  

  * OTHER: Software, technical diagram, etc. 

  

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Dissemination Level [1]

</td>  
<td>

  * PU: Public, fully open, e.g. web 

  

  * CO: Confidential, restricted under conditions set out in Grant Agreement 

  

  * CI: Classified, information as referred to in Commission Decision 2001/844/EC. 

  

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Metadata

</td>  
<td>

Information about datasets stored in a repository/database template, including
size, source, author, production date etc.

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Repository

</td>  
<td>

A digital repository is a mechanism for managing and storing digital content.

</td> </tr> </table>

##  1.4 Abbreviations and Acronyms  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

DMP

</th>  
<th>

Data Management Plan (this document)

</th> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

EC

</td>  
<td>

European Commission

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

EDM

</td>  
<td>

Exploitation and Dissemination Manager

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

EMG

</td>  
<td>

Electro-Mechanical Generator

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

FAIR

</td>  
<td>

Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

FTP

</td>  
<td>

File Transfer Protocol

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

HALT

</td>  
<td>

High Accelerated Life Test

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

HWIL

</td>  
<td>

Hard Ware-In-the-Loop

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

IPR

</td>  
<td>

Intellectual Property Rights

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

PEDR

</td>  
<td>

Plan for the Exploitation and Dissemination of Results

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

PMP

</td>  
<td>

Project Management Plan

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

PTO

</td>  
<td>

Power Take-Off

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

OA

</td>  
<td>

Open Access

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

ORD

</td>  
<td>

Open Research Data

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

WEC

</td>  
<td>

Wave Energy Convertor

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

WP

</td>  
<td>

Work Package

</td> </tr> </table>

##  1.5 Reference

N/A  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

**2**

</th>  
<th>

**Data Summary**

</th> </tr> </table>

##  2.1 Assessment of existing data

This project builds on a number of prior research topic areas and scientific
work, some of which are proprietary company IP and others that are open or
published literature. These sources are accessible by the project partners and
are summarised in Table 1 in relation to each of the project work packages
(WP).  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

**Background Data Description**

</th>  
<th>

**Origin**

</th>  
<th>

**Accessibility Level**

</th>  
<th>

**Related WP**

</th> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

WEC-Sim - the open source software tool for modelling

</td>  
<td>

National Renewable Energy Laboratory  
</td>  
<td>

PU

</td>  
<td>

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**Background Data Description**

</td>  
<td>

**Origin**

</td>  
<td>

**Accessibility Level**

</td>  
<td>

**Related WP**

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

wave energy systems and related published case studies.

</td>  
<td>

(NREL)  and  Sandia National

Laboratories (Sandia)

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

WP2 - EMG

Integrability Analysis and Specifications

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Modified version of the WECSim numerical code.

</td>  
<td>

K2M

</td>  
<td>

CO

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

European wave energy resource data.

</td>  
<td>

Published metocean datasets

</td>  
<td>

PU

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

EMG design data, prior test results and manufacturing processes.

</td>  
<td>

UMBRA

</td>  
<td>

CO

</td>  
<td>

WP3 EMG Prototype

Design and

Fabrication

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Design and manufacturing standards.

</td>  
<td>

Standards organisations

</td>  
<td>

PU

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Test bench design data and manufacturing processes and associated standards.

</td>  
<td>

VGA

</td>  
<td>

CO

</td>  
<td>

WP4 HWIL Test

Bench Design and

Fabrication

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Design and manufacturing standards.

</td>  
<td>

Standards organisations

</td>  
<td>

PU

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Control system strategies and methodologies.

</td>  
<td>

NTNU, published research

</td>  
<td>

PU

</td>  
<td>

WP5 - Control System

Design and

Implementation

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Techno-economic model.

</td>  
<td>

UEDIN

</td>  
<td>

CO

</td>  
<td>

WP7 - Technoeconomical assessment

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Model input data (e.g. cost data).

</td>  
<td>

Published research

</td>  
<td>

PU

</td> </tr> </table>

**Table 1: Existing datasets (PU: Public CO: Confidential)** For completeness,
the remaining project Work Packages are:

  * WP1 - Project Management 

  

  * WP6 - EMG experimental testing 

  

  * WP8 - Project results exploitation and dissemination 

  

##  2.2 Information on new datasets/outputs

In order to advance and demonstrate the development of the EMG and deliver the
project objectives, the IMAGINE project will produce a range of new outputs.

The results of this project are planned to be exploited commercially and as
such the dissemination level specified for all but one of the project
Deliverables is specified as Confidential. Nevertheless, in the first DMP a
preliminary list of general and underlying datasets and summary level reports
have been identified as potentially suitable for sharing and dissemination.

Table 2 is the updated list of ‘Open Access Content’, presented in relation to
the project Deliverables. The data will comprise of quantitative and
qualitative data in a variety of easily accessible formats, including, Excel
(XLSX, CSV), Word (DOCX), Power Point (PPTX), image (JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF,
MPEG), Portable Document Format (PDF). This table includes the data utility,
the responsible partner, the medium for dissemination (digital reports and
datasets; conference papers and scientific papers), as well as the documents

(close to being) published at the time of the intermediate DMP. The columns
‘responsible partner’ and ‘documents’ are introduced in this intermediate DMP.  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

**Open Access Content List - Intermediate Issue**

</th> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**ID**

</td>  
<td>

**Linked**

**WP**

</td>  
<td>

**Linked Deliv.**

</td>  
<td>

**Description**

</td>  
<td>

**Utility / Users**

</td>  
<td>

**Responsible Partners**

</td>  
<td>

**Online Report**

</td>  
<td>

**Online Datasets**

</td>  
<td>

**Conf. paper**

</td>  
<td>

**Journal paper**

</td>  
<td>

**Documents**

</td>  
<td>

**Format, Volume**

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

1

</td>  
<td>

2

</td>  
<td>

2.3

</td>  
<td>

Scientific paper summarising preliminary load assessment for the EMG.

</td>  
<td>

Relevant to wave energy project developers.

</td>  
<td>

K2

</td>  
<td>

N

</td>  
<td>

N

</td>  
<td>

Y

</td>  
<td>

TBD

</td>  
<td>

EWTEC2019 paper

</td>  
<td>

PDF <100MB

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

2

</td>  
<td>

3

</td>  
<td>

3.1

</td>  
<td>

Summary design and arrangements

</td>  
<td>

Relevant to wave energy project developers.

</td>  
<td>

UEDIN/

UMBRA

</td>  
<td>

Y

</td>  
<td>

N

</td>  
<td>

Y

</td>  
<td>

TBD

</td>  
<td>

EWTEC2019 paper

</td>  
<td>

PDF <100MB

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

3

</td>  
<td>

4

</td>  
<td>

4.1, 4.2

</td>  
<td>

Summary of HWIL hardware and software system descriptions.

</td>  
<td>

Provides test bench capability information to

other test rig operators and users - good for publicity.

</td>  
<td>

VGA

</td>  
<td>

N

</td>  
<td>

N

</td>  
<td>

N

</td>  
<td>

TBD

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

DOCX <100MB

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

4

</td>  
<td>

5

</td>  
<td>

5.1, 5.2

</td>  
<td>

Summary report of control strategies investigated.

</td>  
<td>

Control system, PTO and WEC developers.

</td>  
<td>

NTNU

</td>  
<td>

Y

</td>  
<td>

Y

</td>  
<td>

Y

</td>  
<td>

TBD

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

DOCX <100MB

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

5

</td>  
<td>

6

</td>  
<td>

6.2

</td>  
<td>

Summary of HWIL and HALT test outcomes including generator perfomance curves.

</td>  
<td>

WEC developers and other potential users.

</td>  
<td>

UMBRA

</td>  
<td>

Y

</td>  
<td>

Y

</td>  
<td>

Y

</td>  
<td>

TBD

</td>  
<td>

EWTEC2019 paper

</td>  
<td>

DOCX, XLSX

<100MB

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

6

</td>  
<td>

6

</td>  
<td>

6.2

</td>  
<td>

Pictures and videos of physical testing.

</td>  
<td>

Potential users as well to inform wider stakeholders and society.

</td>  
<td>

UMBRA

</td>  
<td>

N

</td>  
<td>

Y

</td>  
<td>

N

</td>  
<td>

N

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

JPG,

MPEG

<10GB

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

7

</td>  
<td>

7

</td>  
<td>

7.1, 7.2,

7.3, 7.4

</td>  
<td>

Summary report of techno-economic (LCOE LCA, SCOE).

</td>  
<td>

Researchers and modellers, WEC developers, users.

</td>  
<td>

UEDIN

</td>  
<td>

Y

</td>  
<td>

N

</td>  
<td>

Y

</td>  
<td>

TBD

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

DOCX, XLSX

<100MB

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

8

</td>  
<td>

8

</td>  
<td>

8.2

</td>  
<td>

IMAGINE Website

</td>  
<td>

All stakeholders

</td>  
<td>

UMBRA

</td>  
<td>

\-

</td>  
<td>

\-

</td>  
<td>

\-

</td>  
<td>

\-

</td>  
<td>

News;

Electronic newsletter 1

</td>  
<td>

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

9

</td>  
<td>

8

</td>  
<td>

8.4, 8.7

</td>  
<td>

Summary of workshops report

</td>  
<td>

All stakeholders

</td>  
<td>

UMBRA

</td>  
<td>

Y

</td>  
<td>

N

</td>  
<td>

N

</td>  
<td>

N

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

DOCX<10 0MB

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

10

</td>  
<td>

8

</td>  
<td>

8.3, 8.6

</td>  
<td>

IMAGINE Data Management Plan

</td>  
<td>

All stakeholders - maintain transparency to all

stakeholders in line with H2020 expectations.

</td>  
<td>

UEDIN/

UMBRA

</td>  
<td>

Y

</td>  
<td>

N

</td>  
<td>

N

</td>  
<td>

N

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

DOCX<10 0MB

</td> </tr> </table>

**Table 2: List of Open Access data - description, utility and type – in
relation to project WPs and Deliverables (TBD: to be decided) – intermediate
version**

Table 3 presents the list of the public documents generated in the IMAGINE
project at the time of the intermediate DMP (M18).  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

**Type**

</th>  
<th>

**Document**

</th> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Conference Presentation

</td>  
<td>

ICOE presentation 2018 – Innovation Policy Pathways for the Commercialisation
of Marine Energy

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Conference Paper

</td>  
<td>

EWTEC paper 2019 - Progress update on the development and testing of an
advanced power take-off for marine energy applications (lead author UEDIN)

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Conference Paper

</td>  
<td>

EWTEC paper 2019 - Preliminary Load Assessment: UMBRA’s 250kW EMG Power Take-
Off (lead author K2M)

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Conference Paper

</td>  
<td>

EWTEC paper 2019 - Numerical and experimental test on a large scale model of a
pivoting wave energy conversion system (lead author UMBRA)

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Electronic newsletter

</td>  
<td>

IMAGINE electronic newsletter, December 2019 – available on IMAGINE website

</td> </tr> </table>

**Table 3: List of open access data documents – intermediate version**

##  2.3 Stakeholder Responsibility

In the first DMP (D8.3), the responsibilities of the application of the DMP
was indicated, of which the overview is shown in Table 4. The last column of
Table 4 indicates the actions of these stakeholders between the first version
and intermediate version of the DMP.  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

**Stakeholder**

</th>  
<th>

**Responsibility**

</th>  
<th>

**Intermediate DMP action**

</th> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

EDM –

Mr Henry Jeffrey

</td>  
<td>

Responsible for the overall application of the strategy of the DMP (and PEDR)
and the transfer of the benefits from the IMAGINE results to all project
partners and wider civic society.

</td>  
<td>

UEDIN to update the DMP.

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**Stakeholder**

</td>  
<td>

**Responsibility**

</td>  
<td>

**Intermediate DMP action**

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Project

Coordinator – Mr

Luca Castellini

</td>  
<td>

Make sure that the project partners are aware of the DMP and their
responsibilities regarding the data and results from the IMAGINE project.

</td>  
<td>

Ensure all project partners have updated their data management and security
and their activities in the ‘open access data’ content list.

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

All project partners

</td>  
<td>

Prepare quality-controlled data in correct format and sharing through agreed
publication channel. The share-ability of the data/results should be confirmed
with the Project Coordinator.

</td>  
<td>

Update data management and security policies and measures, where required, and
indicate the activities in the ‘open access data’ content list.

</td> </tr> </table>

**Table 4: Responsibilities of stakeholders involved in open access, including
the actions undertaken at M18 (intermediate version of DMP)**  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

**3**

</th>  
<th>

**FAIR data**

</th> </tr> </table>

The first DMP (D8.3) indicated the IMAGINE’s application of the Findable,
Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) approach for the project’s results.
The description is presented in Appendix B. A high-level overview of the FAIR
application within IMAGINE is presented in Table 5.  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

**FAIR approach**

</th>  
<th>

**IMAGINE’s application**

</th>  
<th>

**Intermediate DMP action**

</th> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Findable

</td>  
<td>

All IMAGINE’s documents will be identifiable based on a common naming
convention and will include appropriate metadata.

</td>  
<td>

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Accessible

</td>  
<td>

Project partners need to protect results that are commercially and
industrially exploitable, in accordance with Article 27 in the Grant

Agreement. Confidential data will be hosted on the IMAGINE

Consortium File Transfer Protocol (FTP) area and Individual partner’s
institutional online repositories. Public datasets and documents will be
published, where appropriate, on the IMAGINE website, research data
repository, journals and the Wave and Tidal Knowledge Network.

</td>  
<td>

Identification of preferred research data repository

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Interoperable

</td>  
<td>

A draft metadata set is set-up containing: General information; Sharing/Access
data; Dataset/Output Overview; Methodical information.

</td>  
<td>

Confirm metadata set

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Reusable

</td>  
<td>

The data will be reusable through the open access as determined under the
“Accessible” section.

</td>  
<td>

</td> </tr> </table>

**Table 5: High-level overview of the FAIR approach applied in the IMAGINE
project, indicating the actions undertaken at M18 (intermediate version of
DMP)**  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

**4**

</th>  
<th>

**Allocation of resources**

</th> </tr> </table>

The activities related to making the data/outputs open access are anticipated
to be covered within the allocated budget for each work package. The costs of
making scientific publications, hosting a project website and the partners and
open access data repositories are contained within these budgets as eligible
costs.  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

**5**

</th>  
<th>

**Data security and data management**

</th> </tr> </table>

Each IMAGINE project partner will be obliged to follow the approach set out in
this DMP as well as the requirements stipulated in the Grant Agreement. The
project partners will also comply with their own organisational procedures for
managing research data as listed in Table 6\. The main adjustment in this
chapter is the project partner adjustment after the acquisition of Cruz
Atcheson Consulting Engineers (CA) by K2 Management A/S.

Part of the data management is the selection of the data repository to be used
to maintain research results, appropriate according to the Intellectual
Property Rights. Two repositories have been identified that are used in other
marine energy H2020 projects, the Zenodo repository by the OPERA project and
the EC CORDIS website by all EC framework projects. Some characteristics of
these data repositories are as follows:

  * The Zenodo repository, the data will be preserved indefinitely (minimum of 5 years) and there are currently no costs for archiving data in this repository [2]. At the time of publishing this intermediate DMP, the Zenodo repository is the preferred data repository for research data generated within the IMAGINE project that has been/will be identified to be suitable for exploitation. 

  

  * CORDIS (Community Research and Development Information Service) contains the project results of all the EU’s framework programmes, as part of the EC’s strategy to disseminate and exploit research results [3]. Therefore, CORDIS already contains the public IMAGINE’s project results. 

  

  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

**Project partner**

</th>  
<th>

**Data management policies**

</th> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

BV

</td>  
<td>

Compliance with Bureau Veritas Global IS/IT Charter detailing the rules
governing the use of the Bureau Veritas Information System.

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

K2M

</td>  
<td>

Internal company procedures

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

NTNU

</td>  
<td>

Policy for research data:

_https://innsida.ntnu.no/c/wiki/get_page_attachment?p_l_id=22780
&nodeId=24646&title=NT _

_NU+Open+Data &fileName=NTNU%20Open%20Data_Policy.pdf _

Policy for information security:
_https://innsida.ntnu.no/wiki//wiki/English/Policy+for+information+security_

Data protection: NTNU has guidelines that adhere to the GDPR (currently
available in Norwegian only)

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

UMBRA

</td>  
<td>

Internal company procedures

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

UEDIN

</td>  
<td>

Research Data Service -  _https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-
services/researchsupport/research-data-service_

Data protection -  _https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management/policy/data-
protection_ Information Security -  _https://www.ed.ac.uk/infosec_

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

VGA

</td>  
<td>

Internal company procedures

</td> </tr> </table>

**Table 6: IMAGINE project partner data management policies – intermediate
version**

The datasets will be preserved in line with the European Commission Data
Deposit Policy and in line with the policy of the selected repository.

Table 7 gives an overview of the data security measures of the data
repositories in use by the IMAGINE project partners.  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

**Project partner/ Repository**

</th>  
<th>

**Data security measures**

</th> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Project specific

FTP

</td>  
<td>

The IMAGINE Consortium has setup a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) area where
data share across partners is possible. This area provides a space for
information exchange and an archive for all the documentation produced along
the Project lifespan. This is maintained by VGA, which has also provided
access details to specific individuals.

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Data Repository

</td>  
<td>

If research data is deemed appropriate by the Project lead to be made public,
Zenodo is the preferred data repository at the time of publishing the
intermediate DMP, as this repository has been used by another H2020 project
with similar data protection requirements.

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

BV

</td>  
<td>

Data will be stored and managed on Bureau Veritas authorized software,
hardware and network facilities in order to ensure secure file management
according to Bureau Veritas Global IS/IT Charter.

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

K2M

</td>  
<td>

Data will be stored locally on K2Management Lda’s computing facilities and NAS
Drive (and its associated back-up cloud).

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

NTNU

</td>  
<td>

Data will be hosted locally by NTNU’s IT Services using internal shared drives
and the NTNU’s Sharepoint system, which allows free storage, security, daily
backup, disaster recovery and secure data sharing among research teams.

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

UMBRA

</td>  
<td>

Data will be hosted locally by the company’s IT Services using Teamcenter and
SharePoint systems, which allows free storage, security, daily backup,
disaster recovery and secure data sharing among research teams. Data and
information stored in the IMAGINE website are hosted in a third-party
repository contracted by UMBRAGROUP spa.

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

UEDIN

</td>  
<td>

Data will be hosted locally by the University’s Information Services using the
University’s Sharepoint system, which allows free storage, security, daily
backup, disaster recovery and secure data sharing among research teams.

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

VGA

</td>  
<td>

Data will be hosted locally by the company’s IT Services using IKNOW systems,
which allows storage, security, daily backup, disaster recovery.

</td> </tr> </table>

**Table 7: Data security measures of the IMAGINE project partner’s data
repositories – intermediate version**

Following completion of the project, all the responsibilities concerning data
recovery and secure storage will go to the repository storing the dataset.
This provides options for making data openly available and other data
restricted access as required.  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

**6**

</th>  
<th>

**Ethical aspects**

</th> </tr> </table>

The IMAGINE project is to comply with the ethical principles set out in
Article 34 of the Grant Agreement. Data collected and produced as part of the
project will be purely technical in nature and will be done so in accordance
with the ethical principles, notably to avoid fabrication, falsification,
plagiarism or other research misconduct.

Personal identifiable information will be collected and stored for the
purposes of communication with stakeholders and other interested parties. When
the project involves access by the partners to personal data, the partners
shall be regarded as responsible for treatment of said data and shall comply
with rules laid down in the Regulation (EU) No 2016/679 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of
individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free
movement of such data, and repealing EU Directive 95/46/EC (General Data
Protection Regulation), and its transposition to the national laws of the
member states involved, as well as any other applicable national regulations
currently in force or introduced in the future to modify and/or replace it.  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

**7**

</th>  
<th>

**Other issues**

</th> </tr> </table>

The periodic updates to the DMP are not expected to result in significant
changes but the following changes could occur:

  * greater resolution and visibility of the specific data that will be produced by the research and that is appropriate to be made Open Access, whilst respecting commercial sensitivities. 

  

  * changes in consortium policies (e.g. new innovation potential, decision to file for a patent). 

  

  * changes in consortium composition and external factors (e.g. new consortium members joining or old members leaving). 

  

The first DMP was released in M6, August 2018. This intermediate version is
released in M18, August 2019.

The final update to the DMP will be produced in M30, August 2020.  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

**8**

</th>  
<th>

**Bibliography**

</th> </tr> </table>

  1. European Commission, “Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Actions Administrative forms (Part A) Research proposal (Part B),,” 21 May 2015. [Online]. Available: 

  

  

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/call_ptef/pt/h2020-call-
pt-ria-ia_en.pdf. [Accessed 18 June 2018].

  2. Zenodo, “Zenodo respository homepage,” [Online]. Available: https://www.zenodo.org/. [Accessed 18 June 2018]. 

  

  3. European Commission, “What's on CORDIS,” [Online]. Available: https://cordis.europa.eu/about/en. [Accessed July 2019]. 

  

  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

**9**

</th>  
<th>

**Appendix A – IMAGINE Grant Agreement Extract**

</th> </tr> </table>

###  ARTICLE 27 — PROTECTION OF RESULTS — VISIBILITY OF EU FUNDING 27.1
Obligation to protect the results

Each beneficiary must examine the possibility of protecting its results and
must adequately protect them — for an appropriate period and with appropriate
territorial coverage — if:

(a) the results can reasonably be expected to be commercially or industrially
exploited and (b) protecting them is possible, reasonable and justified (given
the circumstances).

When deciding on protection, the beneficiary must consider its own legitimate
interests and the legitimate interests (especially commercial) of the other
beneficiaries.

###  27.2 Agency ownership, to protect the results

If a beneficiary intends not to protect its results, to stop protecting them
or not seek an extension of protection, the Agency may — under certain
conditions (see Article 26.4) — assume ownership to ensure their (continued)
protection.

###  27.3 Information on EU funding

Applications for protection of results (including patent applications) filed
by or on behalf of a beneficiary must — unless the Agency requests or agrees
otherwise or unless it is impossible — include the following:

“The project leading to this application has received funding from the
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant
agreement No 764066”.

###  27.4 Consequences of non-compliance

If a beneficiary breaches any of its obligations under this Article, the grant
may be reduced (see Article 43).

Such a breach may also lead to any of the other measures described in Chapter
6.

###  ARTICLE 29 — DISSEMINATION OF RESULTS — OPEN ACCESS — VISIBILITY OF EU
FUNDING 29.1 Obligation to disseminate results

Unless it goes against their legitimate interests, each beneficiary must — as
soon as possible —

‘ **disseminate** ’ its results by disclosing them to the public by
appropriate means (other than those resulting from protecting or exploiting
the results), including in scientific publications (in any medium).

This does not change the obligation to protect results in Article 27, the
confidentiality obligations in Article 36, the security obligations in Article
37 or the obligations to protect personal data in Article 39, all of which
still apply.

A beneficiary that intends to disseminate its results must give advance notice
to the other beneficiaries of — unless agreed otherwise — at least 45 days,
together with sufficient information on the results it will disseminate.

Any other beneficiary may object within — unless agreed otherwise — 30 days of
receiving notification, if it can show that its legitimate interests in
relation to the results or background would be significantly harmed. In such
cases, the dissemination may not take place unless appropriate steps are taken
to safeguard these legitimate interests.

If a beneficiary intends not to protect its results, it may — under certain
conditions (see Article 26.4.1) — need to formally notify the Agency before
dissemination takes place.

###  29.2 Open access to scientific publications

Each beneficiary must ensure open access (free of charge online access for any
user) to all peerreviewed scientific publications relating to its results.

In particular, it must:

  1. as soon as possible and at the latest on publication, deposit a machine-readable electronic copy of the published version or final peer-reviewed manuscript accepted for publication in a repository for scientific publications; Moreover, the beneficiary must aim to deposit at the same time the research data needed to validate the results presented in the deposited scientific publications. 

  

  2. ensure open access to the deposited publication — via the repository — at the latest: 

  

  

  1. on publication, if an electronic version is available for free via the publisher, or 

  

  2. within six months of publication (twelve months for publications in the social sciences and humanities) in any other case. 

  

  

(c) ensure open access — via the repository — to the bibliographic metadata
that identify the deposited publication.

The bibliographic metadata must be in a standard format and must include all
of the following:

  * the terms “European Union (EU)” and “Horizon 2020”; 

  

  * the name of the action, acronym and grant number; 

  

  * the publication date, and length of embargo period if applicable, and - a persistent identifier. 

  

###  29.3 Open access to research data

Regarding the digital research data generated in the action (‘ **data** ’),
the beneficiaries must: (a) deposit in a research data repository and take
measures to make it possible for third parties to access, mine, exploit,
reproduce and disseminate — free of charge for any user — the following: (i)
the data, including associated metadata, needed to validate the results
presented in scientific publications as soon as possible;

(ii) other data, including associated metadata, as specified and within the
deadlines laid down in the 'data management plan' (see Annex 1);

(b) provide information — via the repository — about tools and instruments at
the disposal of the beneficiaries and necessary for validating the results
(and — where possible — provide the tools and instruments themselves).

This does not change the obligation to protect results in Article 27, the
confidentiality obligations in Article 36, the security obligations in Article
37 or the obligations to protect personal data in Article 39, all of which
still apply.

As an exception, the beneficiaries do not have to ensure open access to
specific parts of their research data if the achievement of the action's main
objective, as described in Annex 1, would be jeopardised by making those
specific parts of the research data openly accessible. In this case, the data
management plan must contain the reasons for not giving access.

###  29.4 Information on EU funding — Obligation and right to use the EU
emblem

Unless the Agency requests or agrees otherwise or unless it is impossible, any
dissemination of results (in any form, including electronic) must: (a) display
the EU emblem and (b) include the following text:

“This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 764066”.

When displayed together with another logo, the EU emblem must have appropriate
prominence. For the purposes of their obligations under this Article, the
beneficiaries may use the EU emblem without first obtaining approval from the
Agency.

This does not however give them the right to exclusive use.

Moreover, they may not appropriate the EU emblem or any similar trademark or
logo, either by registration or by any other means.

###  29.5 Disclaimer excluding Agency responsibility

Any dissemination of results must indicate that it reflects only the author's
view and that the Agency is not responsible for any use that may be made of
the information it contains.

###  29.6 Consequences of non-compliance

If a beneficiary breaches any of its obligations under this Article, the grant
may be reduced (see Article 43).

Such a breach may also lead to any of the other measures described in Chapter
6.

#  Appendix B – FAIR data

This Appendix includes the information as described in the first DMP on
publishing according to the FAIR approach.

##  Making data findable, including provisions for metadata

The project lead partner, UMBRAGROUP spa, will be responsible for
disseminating this DMP to all project partners. Each project partner will be
responsible for identifying data outputs, of the type described in Table 2, to
be recorded in a central project data register held on the FTP site managed by
UMBRAGROUP spa.

Each project partner will manage and curate their data, including the
production of metadata, and assurance of data quality.

All documents and data sets will follow a naming convention:

  1. A unique identification number linking with the dataset with a deliverable. 

  

  2. The project title 

  

  3. The data descriptor title 

  

  4. Optional - A version name or number and month# indicator for items that are updated during the course of the project. 

  

  

Example: D8.3 IMAGINE Data Management Plan – First Issue_M6

All documents and data sets will be marked with document/version control.

All documents and data created in the project will be identifiable with
appropriate metadata including information on the type of data contained, the
means by which the data was created, details of the creator, and terms of
access, see details in Section 10.3.

##  Making data openly accessible

In accordance with Article 27 of the grant agreement (Appendix A), the project
partners are obliged to protect the results where these can be expected to be
commercially or industrially exploited. The outputs of this project are
expected to be commercially exploited using IP owned and generated by the
partners and as a result this limits the level of openness. Exploitation may
involve a number of activities that have to be protected: using them in
further research activities; developing, creating or marketing a product or
process; creating and providing a service; or using them in standardization
activities.

The Public datasets and reports identified in Table 2 will be published in
full as appropriate in the following locations:

  * The IMAGINE project website  _www.h2020-imagine.eu_ \- either in full or signposting another location. 

  

  * A research data repository, compliant with OpenAIRE guidance [3]. A repository selection process will be completed by the intermediate review of the DMP due in M18. The default repository, in the event that a preferred repository is not identified, will be Zenodo [4] that provides discoverable and secure hosting with management and monitoring provisions. The repository will host scientific publications and all datasets associated with such publications. 

  

  * Concerning scientific publications, prestigious peer-reviewed journals relevant to the sector will be targeted. When the research data related to these publications is needed to be published to validate the results presented, this will be either self-archived ‘green’ OA or immediately published ‘gold’ OA as appropriate [5]. The specific journal(s) will depend on the results obtained, but potential options are given below. 

  

  * Ocean Engineering, Elsevier (ISSN 0029-8018) 

  

  * Renewable Energy, Elsevier (ISSN 0960-1481) 

  

  * IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energies (ISSN 1949-3029) 

  

  * Energies, MDPI (ISSN 1996-1073) 

  

  * The marine energy industry focussed Wave and Tidal Knowledge Network. [6] The Confidential project data sets and reports will be hosted on: 

  

  * The IMAGINE Consortium File Transfer Protocol (FTP) area where data share across partners is possible. This area provides a space for information exchange and an archive for all the documentation produced along the Project lifespan. 

  

  * Individual partner’s institutional online repositories will host and preserve data until the end of the project. 

  

##  Making data interoperable

The data will be collected and shared in a standardised way using a standard
format for that data type. As required reference will be made to any software
required to run it but given the scope of this project it is not anticipated
that non-standard or uncommon software will be used. Barriers to access
through interoperability issues are not anticipated.

The metadata format will follow the convention of the hosting research data
repository, see Section 10.2. A draft metadata format is set out below and
this is subject to review in the next DMP update.

General Information

  * Title of the dataset/output 

  

  * Dataset Identifier (using the naming convention outlined in Section 10.1.) 

  

  * Responsible Partner 

  

  * Work Package 

  

  * Author Information 

  

  * Date of data collection/production 

  

  * Geographic location of data collection/ production 

  

  * The title of project and Funding sources that supported the collection of the data i.e. European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 764066. Sharing/Access Information 

  

  * Licenses/access restrictions placed on the data 

  

  * Link to data repository 

  

  * Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data, see list in Section 10.2. • Links to publications that cite or use the data 

  

  * Was data derived from another source? 

  

Dataset/Output Overview

  * What is the status of the documented data? – “complete”, “in progress”, or “planned” 

  

  * Date of production 

  

  * Date of submission/publication 

  

  * Are there plans to update the data? 

  

  * Keywords that describe the content 

  

  * Version number 

  

  * Format - Post Script (PDF), Excel (XLSX, CSV), Word (DOC), Power Point (PPT), image (JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF). 

  

  * Size - MBs 

  

Methodological Information

  * Used materials 

  

  * Description of methods used for experimental design and data collection 

  

  * Methods for processing the data 

  

  * Instruments and software used in data collection and processing-specific information needed to interpret the data 

  

  * Standards and calibration information, if appropriate 

  

  * Environmental/experimental conditions 

  

  * Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data 

  

  * Dataset benefits/utility 

  

##  Increase data re-use (through clarifying licences)

The datasets and outputs will be made available for re-use through publication
on the open access platforms and repositories listed in Section 10.2.

Quality control of the data is the responsibility of the relevant responsible
partner generating the data.