* Material characterization data (typically in proprietary format) 

  

  * Images, schematics, and graphs (in common data formats such as bitmap or jpg) 

  

  * Results summary presentations (PowerPoint files) 

  

  * Journal articles, patents, reports on project deliverables (PDF documents) 

  

Data will thus be originated by theoretical and experimental research and
development activities, certain types of data will be frequently re-used (e.g.
for comparison with modified simulation parameters, synthesis protocols etc.),
and it will have moderate size on the order of typically few tens of GB.

Depending on the Work Package involved in data generation, data may not only
be useful for members inside the consortium but also for other academic
institutions or for industry that might want to do benchmarking of new models,
protocols or materials in comparison with existing battery technology.

  2. **How will data be managed internally?**

  

  

All LiRichFCC partners provide appropriate storage facilities for research
data and provide controlled accesses as well as appropriate infrastructure.
They also support free access to research data considering ethical, legal,
economic, and contractual framework conditions.

  3. **What data can be made public?**

  

  

Experimental data and synthesis protocols won’t be made openly available as
default, as their results may have the potentiality to be patented. Data
contained in journal articles may be made openly available. Concerning
deliverables, their confidential or public character is already defined and
available on the European H2020 portal.

Some data may be openly available with some delay due to possible patent
applications.

For those data that can be made public, it needs to be ensured that it is
findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). To this end,
proprietary formats (see 3.1) will be converted into international standard
formats such as ASCII and stored as text files. That way, scientists and
development engineers from all over the world which are researching on the
field of Li-ion batteries or the synthesis and electrochemistry of new Li-rich
cathode materials for Li-ion batteries will benefit from the LiRichFCC
program.

  4. **What processes will be implemented?**

  

  

The partners of the LiRichFCC consortium combine over a century of experience
in research data handling, and have developed efficient ways to archive and
share data. Nonetheless, research has become increasingly more
interdisciplinary, and amounts of data generated are on the rise. Therefore,
especially for collaborative work within individual work packages, the
partners follow internal codes and standards for making data findable.

**Parameter sets, methods and protocols** will be stored in text documents
that follow standardized naming conventions jointly defined by the LiRichFCC
partners to ensure maximum findability, accessibility and interoperability.

**Aggregated data** in the form of presentations, reports (deliverables),
publications, or patents follow standardized naming conventions. For example,
presentations and reports include the name of the project, the corresponding
work package, and the date. Deliverables can be identified by their
deliverable number, publications have unique DOIs, and patents are numbered
per international standards. Public aggregated data will by default be made
available on the project webpage ( _www.lirichfcc.eu_ ) as well as in a yet-
to-be-determined professional repository.

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Aggregated data to be shared will always be in a format that can be used and
understood by a computer. They will typically be stored in PDF formats that
are either standardised or otherwise publicly known so that anyone can develop
new tools for working with the documents.

**Raw experimental or theoretical data** that has been identified as non-
restricted will be converted into a standard, non-proprietary format (ASCII
text file) and combined with necessary meta data in the form of a text
document and PDF file. Such data will be available on the project website as
well as from a professional repository.

General consideration regarding publication, depositing or patenting of
research data are summarized by the Figure below that has been reproduced from
the H2020 Program Guidelines to the Rules on Open Access to Scientific
Publications and Open Access to Research Data in Horizon 2020:

#  OUTLOOK

LiRichFCC partners are currently reaching increased rates of data generation
which make well-crafted policies and processes for data management a must.
This report will be distributed among the LiRichFCC partners to focus
attention on Data Management issues. At the General Assembly of LiRichFCC at
2017/04/11 in Grenoble, concrete policies and protocols for Data Management
will be decided when meeting face-to-face, and the Data Management Plan will
subsequently be updated.