#  1 INTRODUCTION

WEAR Sustain ( _Wearable_ ​ _technologists Engage with Artists for Responsible
Innovation_ ​) aims to engage people in the creative industries, particularly
art and design, to work more closely with technology and engineering
industries, to shift the development of the wearables, smart and e-textile
landscape towards a more sustainable and ethical approach. The project fosters
cross-disciplinary, cross-sectoral collaboration through the co-design and co-
development of ethical, critical and aesthetic wearable technologies and smart
textiles, with a strong focus on the use of personal data within the industry.

Wearable technologies aimed at private consumers constitute a nascent market,
expected to grow very fast. Numerous technology companies and startups are
working to make the next wearable device or application for body data
tracking. Currently, wearable technology collects user’s personal
(physiological) data, most commonly through medical or fitness monitoring. The
wearable technology companies own the users’ physiological data, mainly
collected via mobile apps and devices, with the ability to perform any kind of
operations on it, such as analyse it, interpret it, or sell it, without user
consent. These issues are rarely discussed beyond the fine print on these
devices and some vaguely described security policies and long EULAs (End User
Licence Agreements).

WEAR Sustain aims to raise and discuss awareness around sustainability,
ethical and personal data issues. In addition, in January 2012, the European
Commission proposed a comprehensive reform of data protection rules  1  in the
EU, with Regulation  2  3  coming into force on 24th May 2016 with application
from 25 May 2018. Personal data Regulation​ (EU) 2016/679  4  in particular
addresses​ issues around processing of personal data and on the free movement
of such data.

The project will develop a framework within which the future of ethics and
sustainability within wearables, electronic or smart textile can be discussed
and prototyped, to become examples of what the next generation of developments
could or should be. The project will engage a wide variety of stakeholders  5
that are involved in the development of use of these technologies over the
project’s two year duration, between January 2017 and December 2018.

At the end of the project WEAR Sustain will highlight any new approaches to
design, production, manufacturing and business models, to enable
entrepreneurs, stakeholders and citizens to become more aware of the issues
involved in making and using wearable technologies. These findings will be
made available within a Sustainability Strategy and Toolkit in December 2018.

WEAR Sustain participates in the Horizon 2020 Open Research Data Pilot, which
aims to improve and maximise access to and re-use of research data it
generates. This Data Management Plan, has been developed to determine and
explain which research data will be made open, based on the Horizon 2020
Guidelines  4  on Data Management. It describe the data generated and the
processes and roles that will involve all consortium partners and will ensure
their commitment by including appropriate terms in the Consortium Agreement.
WEAR adheres to Open Knowledge principles, guaranteeing stakeholders and users
open access to published research and information through open data
publishing. The reports and recommendations that will be produced by the
project will therefore be freely available to all users and the general public
via the WEAR Sustain website and freely disseminated locally via WEAR internal
and external dissemination channels.

The following WEAR Sustain Data Management Plan is a living document that will
be updated where needed, as the project progresses.

##  2\. DATA SUMMARY

###  2.1 PURPOSE OF DATA COLLECTION

WEAR Sustain will provide access to the facts and knowledge gleaned from the
project’s activities over a two-year period, to enable the project’s
stakeholder groups, including creative and technology innovators, researchers
and the public at large, to find and re-use its data, and to find and check
research results.​

The project’s activities aims to generate knowledge, methodologies and
processes through fostering​ cross-disciplinary, cross-sectoral collaboration,
discussion, evaluation and co-design/development of ethical, critical and
aesthetic wearable technologies and smart textiles. The data from these
activities will be collected at knowledge exchange events, via the funded
sustainable innovation process and online via the WEAR ecosystem, to evaluate
how future creators may develop future wearables, smart and e-textiles that
are ethical and/or sustainable.

It is planned that knowledge generated throughout the project will lead
towards new approaches to design, production, manufacturing and business
models to help artists and designers, entrepreneurs, stakeholders, and
citizens become more aware of the issues involved in making and using ethical
and sustainable wearable technologies and to​ shift the development of the
wearables and e-textile landscape towards a more sustainable and ethical
approach.

WEAR will encourage all parties to contribute their knowledge openly, to use
and to share the project’s learning outcomes, and to help increase awareness
and adoption of ethics and sustainability in the wearables, smart and
e-textile fields and the technology industry at large.

Funded projects have the right to opt-out of sharing their data, but will need
to say why. Reasons for opting out may include privacy, intellectual property
rights or if sharing might jeopardise their project's main objective.

Knowledge, methodologies and processes documented will​ be used to create a
Sustainability Strategy and Toolkit at the end of the project, which will set
the benchmark for ethical and sustainable technology development. ​The
Sustainability Strategy and Toolkit in particular will summarise the outputs
of the WEAR ICT-36 Innovation Action, to inform stakeholders on the
innovations and processes available for adoption of sustainable business and
innovation practices, born out of the WEAR Sustain early stage funded
innovation activities. WEAR will report on the selection process, the
performance of the funded teams, their progress over the course of the project
and their potential to grow and find funding to continue their project. We​
will make this information open and accessible for all.

###  2.2 DATA COLLECTION AND CREATION

####  WEAR Sustain collected and/or created data

WEAR Sustain will collect, generate and create data from its project
activities across four broad categories of data for evaluation;

  1. Data for evaluation; 

  

  2. Research Data and metadata; 

  

  3. Manuscripts; 

  

  4. Dissemination material. 

  

  

The following interactions with project stakeholders will be used to collect
the data the project needs for evaluation;

  * WP2 - Digital mapping of the WEAR Sustain ecosystem  7  ; 

  

  * WP3 - Online applications for the Open Calls  8  ; 

  

  * WP3 - Interaction with experts on review & selection panels  9  for funding evaluation; 

  

  * WP4 - Monitoring of the Sustainable Innovation process by the funded teams and their mentors and hub leaders, project support to funded team and interaction with support hubs; 

  

  * WP5 - Gathering of all other insights from events, funded teams and expert consultation available to feed into the Sustainability Strategy Toolkit; 

  

  * WP6 - Dissemination/engagement activities including presentations and discussions on project themes by experts and stakeholders at project and external events. 

  

Data types may take the form of lists (of organisations, events, activities,
etc.), reports, papers, interviews, expert and organisational contact details,
field notes, videos, audio and presentations. Video and Presentations
dissemination material will be made accessible online via the WEAR Sustain
website and disseminated through the project’s media channels, EC associated
activities, press, conference presentations, demonstrations and other means,
using open publishing means and standards.

In the following we describe the types of data and the formats used. A list of
all data to be collected and created is shown in Table 1 and any additional
information will be explained in the following sections.

7  8  ​https://network.wearsustain.eu/ ​http://wearsustain.eu/open-calls/

9  ​Expert panels are managed by the consortium under WP3. The expert panel
will be published online upon selection.

####  Data for evaluation

Data for evaluation will consist of image, video, audio and manuscript
datasets, to be used for evaluation and for development of the Sustainability
Strategy and Toolkit. This data will be used by the consortium throughout the
project.

WEAR will take advantage of any pre existing data that can be used in the
project. Datasets will include any material collected by partners in the
consortium, such as WP2 or WP5 state of the art research, and public images
owned by the consortium.

The project will generate new images, video, audio and documents data. Data
from events, with permission from any owners, will be evaluated, processed and
shared with all stakeholders and the general public online. The project will
also evaluate and share ​data collected via the WEAR Online Network to assess
the services offered by the hubs. Data collected via applications on the F6S
platform (WP3) will evaluated and any data supplied by winning teams may be
processed and used for the team’s promotion. Data​ for evaluation will also
cover the project ethics and sustainability themes.

Audio files may be recorded at the knowledge exchange sessions at WEAR Sustain
public events via mobile phones and digital recorders. ​The common file format
for this is WAV or AIFF (which are the highest quality), but might be
published as MP3.

Images and video datasets will use common​ file formats. Images will be JPEG
and PNG files. Video will be MP4​ for best quality, however videos may also be
in file type MOV, MPEG, AVI, 3GP, WMV, or FLV.

####  Research Data and metadata

This category uses data generated by user interaction via;

  * The Sustainable application and Innovation process 

  

  * WEAR events and 

  

  * WEAR Online Network and Ecosystem. 

  

#####  Manuscripts

Manuscripts will consist of all the reports generated during the project,
including all deliverables, publications and internal documents. Microsoft
Word (DOCX) and PDF will be used for final document versions.

#####  Dissemination Material

WEAR Sustain will produce dissemination material in a variety of forms:
posters, public presentations, how-to/speaker videos and website. All
dissemination material will be shared via PDF, JPEG or PNG files unless
otherwise stared.

The expected size of all the data, as outlined in Table 1 is around 52 GB.
This will be updated as the project progresses.

###  2.3 DATA COLLECTION AND CREATION METHODOLOGIES

**Collection and creation of data**

In the following, details of the collection or creation of the data of the
different categories/types will be provided:

####  ● Data for evaluation

Online data of the WEAR network will be collected by the team in WP2 in the
form of digital mapping of the WEAR Sustain ecosystem.

During the competition application phases each​ of the 48 applicant teams will
provide up to 10 pages of text and a 3 minute video pitch each of a maximum
30mb file size, submitted and held via an online application portal called F6S
5  . The pre-selection process will be documented through scoring sheets and
discussion, followed by similar final selection process.

For dissemination WEAR will use images, videos, audio and transcripts from
events of knowledge exchange activities are the datasets that will be
generated. There will be 10 project events and a final showcase over the two
years of the project. It is estimated that there may be a total of 40 video
recorded presentations in total at project events, plus up to six recorded
round table discussions per event totalling 60 audio/transcript files. There
will also , and 48 funded project presentations contributing to image and
video data for the final showcase. In addition there may be external event
data recording.

During the Sustainable Innovation process, WEAR will monitor the
methodologies, processes and support used by our 48 funded teams. Teams will
record their findings via an Offbot  6  project reporting tool, which will
remain private, for use by the teams, mentors and WEAR consortium. The team
and mentors may also provide reports.

####  ● Research Data and metadata

WEAR Sustain will use quantitative and qualitative research methods for data
collection throughout the project. The former will rely on sampling and
structured data collection to produce results that are easy to summarise,
compare and generalise. Qualitative data collection will be used used to
clarify quantitative evaluation findings. The project will gather valuable
Knowledge and insights originating from the following project activities;

**○** Knowledge Exchange activities at events and webinars - Professionals and
SMEs round table discussions at our events and online. Registration and
attendance to Knowledge Exchange activities

**○** The Digital Platform for Ecosystem Visualisation - WEAR Sustain mapping
of the EU wearable technology and e-textiles network; the ‘What, Who, Where,
When, Why and How’ of wearable technologies and e-textiles materials, in terms
of where components are sourced, experimentation, design, prototyping, and how
they are tentatively transformed into new business models across Europe,
managed by Datascouts.

**○** The WEAR Sustain Website - The website allows users to subscribe to a
notifications list. Cookies are also used.

**○** The WEAR Sustain Mailing lists and databases - Databases of WEAR Sustain
hubs, experts, mentors and event and newsletter sign-ups, managed via
Mailchimp and Datascouts. Databases must include the source of the data (e.g.
event), list the person’s first name and surname, their location, the date,
their email and their affiliation.

**○** Surveys - Online and paper based surveys will be provided after each
WEAR activity, such as events, to glean as much data from the participant as
possible.

Following data collection, as part of our mandate for the project’s (WP5), to
build a WEAR Sustain Sustainability Strategy, the project will organise the
collected data into a suitable format for analysis. During the analysis stage,
WEAR Sustain will examine the relationships, patterns and trends in the above
data collected, to develop conclusions for an open access Toolkit, which will
be published online and made freely available.

####  ● Manuscripts and Dissemination material

A total of 27 WEAR public deliverable reports will be created by the
consortium, stored on the WEAR website. In addition dissemination material
including a media kit, press releases, presentations, publications, images and
videos, as well as other resources​ to aid the project will be created by the
consortium over the duration of the project and made freely available for
dissemination on the WEAR Sustain website. Microsoft Office tools will be used
wherever possible as well as PDF and JPEG.

#####  Structure, name and versioning of files

Regarding the structure of the WEAR Consortium shared drive, which is private,
there is currently no provision for meta data, but each document produced is
attached to a specific work package (eg WP1, WP2, WP3 et al), and within the
work package standardised sub folders exist which correspond to the
deliverables for that package.

In the case of video and image files, the project will keep the raw data
separate from the processed data. The consortium has chosen to use Flickr
which provides 1TB of free storage. The consortium will use this to store all
unprocessed video and image files to be marked as private. Raw audio and
transcript files will be stored privately on the shared drive.

Processed and edited videos will be uploaded to YouTube under the Science​ &
Technology  7  category with a Standard YouTube Licence. Selected images of
the best quality will be made public on Flickr with All Rights Reserved.
Public Flickr files and Youtube videos will be made visible and accessible via
the WEAR Sustain Website. Public dissemination material will be stored on the
project website in the Share section, under the Media and Resources  8  page,
including manuscripts and reports. We have enabled sharing of publically
available resources across a variety of social media channels.

Documentation of public material will include, wherever possible, the publish
date, the event/methodology used, the aim, ​followed by our general funding
statement and the project URL.​ A feedback link ​to a survey form may also be
provided where appropriate. In the case of manuscripts, the same information
will apply unless the structure of the documentation inhibits it (e.g. a
journal/conference paper).

All WEAR public platforms and published material should state the purpose of
WEAR Sustain as an EU-wide wearables, smart and e-textiles project funded by
Horizon 2020 to confront ethics and sustainability through research and
innovation. It must state that the project has received funding from the
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant
agreement No. 732098, that the sole responsibility of the publication lies
with the WEAR Sustain Consortium and that the European Commission is not
responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

As to the naming of files, in all cases, files will be named according to
their event or content and date. Versioning is not appropriate for much of the
data produced as part of WEAR Sustain. We enable version control on reports
and deliverables, and this will be managed on a case by case basis appropriate
to the task.

Metadata information usually includes such basic elements as: title, who
published the dataset, when it was published, how often it is updated and what
license is associated with the dataset. The metadata will correlate with the
glossary  9  of terms defined by the WEAR consortium, which is publicly
available on the website.

##  3\. FAIR DATA

WEAR Sustain will endeavour to make its research data ‘Findable, Accessible,
Interoperable and Reusable (F.A.I.R)’, leading to knowledge discovery and
innovation, and to subsequent data and knowledge integration and reuse.

The WEAR consortium is aware of the mandate for open access of publications in
the H2020 projects and participation of the project in the Open Research Data
Pilot. The consortium is yet to decide on a data repository for the project
and is in discussion on the best repository for the project outcomes. The
consortium, through WP5 and WP6, will ensure that scientific results produced
by funded teams that do not need to be protected and can be useful for the
research community will be duly and timely deposited, for access by any user.
As mentioned above these will be;

  * Electronic copies of any final versions or final peer-reviewed manuscripts accepted for publication, made available with open access publishing; 

  

  * Public project deliverables and any necessary summaries of confidential project deliverables; 

  

  * Public presentations, and any other kind of dissemination material; 

  

  * Research data needed to validate the results presented in any deposited publications. 

  

The standard file format for information will be in PDF. Unless documentation
is protected under copyright, all publications will be made freely available
under the Creative Commons Licence.

**Data within the WEAR DataScouts online platform** is​ searchable through a
variety of search interfaces that provide endpoints to search on name and
keywords. Current search filters include

-​Accelerator, Creative Professional, Enabler, Technology Provider, Creative & Innovation Hub, Investor, Academia, Government & Public Admin, Enterprise, Association - geographically. Stakeholders may also search for a partner via their membership to find a creative or technology collaborator for the projects Open Calls. K​ eywords​ are being normalised before being made available for search in order to optimize the data quality and searchability. One of these normalisations is to lowercase tags that are attached to objects and another is to normalise geographical data. For the latter we use the GeoNames  10  data dump. There is currently no publication of standardised metadata, such as DCAT, except for when a CSV dump is made within the DataScouts application. When​ requesting a CSV dump from DataScouts, a separate RDF file will be provided containing DCAT conform metadata, containing key aspects such as the publisher name, URI, etc. Internal​ identifiers are being kept but are not transparent to the users of the application, here a translation to non-persistent identifiers makes the different objects accessible. Data from the WEAR Online Network will be processed and made available through DataScouts at the end of the project (or DataScouts SLA) through a CSV dump. 

The data processed in DataScouts will be downloadable without any license,
effectively waiving rights of any sort. Data quality is assured in an
automated way, meaning data coming from a variety of sources will be cleaned,
formatted and normalised appropriately. E.g. using GeoNames references for
addresses, normalizing social media handles to full social media URIs, and
normalizing URLs. All of the incoming data, cleaning, and normalizing
processes are being tracked throughout the lifecycle, meaning every change can
be traced back to its source, effectively implementing a provenance workflow.

**For event data** ,​ sharing of registration and attendance details will be
limited to numbers, and broad demographic details. The remaining personal data
will be restricted as a way of protecting personal information. Speaker
presentations may be made available on Slideshare, if the speaker approves of
this. Events will be filmed, edited and uploaded to YouTube for public
consumption. Information generated through roundtable discussions at events
will not be published in it’s raw data form but audio transcriptions will be
collected and used for analysis, anonymised and published via the WEAR Sustain
Sustainability Strategy and toolkit.

**A WEAR Sustain glossary 16  ** has​ been developed by the consortium and
made available via the WEAR Sustain website for inter-disciplinary
interoperability, particularly to enable understanding between technical and
non technical disciplines and is a publically available document. Some
terminology is particular to different industries, and we will endeavour to
avoid the use of highly technical terms and use language which is easily
understood by all. The Wearables and E-textiles page on the WEAR Sustain
website also publishes a diagram outlining the ‘Art,​ Design & Technology
disciplines that could be involved in the development of wearables, smart or
e-textiles  17

**The WEAR Sustain Website,** hosted​ by We Connect Data, will be used for the
dissemination of available research and WEAR Sustain activities. The​
consortium is exploring ways of ensuring the website www.wearsustain.eu and
online community via datascouts will remain available for a longer period of
time (to be decided) beyond the project duration.

**WEAR will share published material on external online platforms** that hold
a captive potential WEAR audiences including Slideshare, YouTube, Linkedin and
social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. We will be
adding metadata in line with the platforms’ most commonly searched for
keywords.

**All other research data** to be collected throughout the project lifecycle
will be shared via the Sustainability Strategy and Toolkit to be used by the
wearables, smart, e-textiles industries and the public at large. This toolkit
will be made available in Month 24 of the project.

**Projects funded via WEAR Sustain** will be required to maintain records
relating to their funding for a minimum of five years to comply with audits
conducted either by or on behalf of the European Commission. ​Partner
organisations will adhere to their own internal regulations for keeping
records.

16  17 The WEAR Glossary can be found at _http://wearsustain.eu/wp-
content/uploads/2017/03/WEAR-Sustain-Glossary.pdf​_

_http://wearsustain.eu/about/wearables-e-textiles/​_

###  4\. DATA SECURITY

####  Data storage, Access and Backup

Storage and maintenance of WEAR Sustain data will be handled according to the
data category, privacy level, need to be shared among the consortium and its
size.

The WEAR Sustain project utilises a number of online platforms to collect and
store data. Although we are beginning with the use of these tools the
consortium is researching into migration to platforms that have a strong
ethical standpoint, in line with our challenge to address data ethics into our
project.

**Application via F6S -** During​ the competition application phase the WEAR
project uses the F6S.com start-up platform to enable applicants to pitch their
ideas during the Open Call process. The platform is used to process the
applications and facilitate the review process. F6S is used regularly by EU
projects relying on open calls (e.g. FP7 and H2020). It will store all data
from this process and most questions related to data handling are dealt with
in their section on 'privacy policy'  11  . F6S will collect and store the
information for each application, automatically collected by F6S to include
contact information, location, role, skills and experience. F6S will also
collect and store;

  * Information about applicant's’ proposed projects seeking funding: 

  

  * An executive summary of the project (max. 1 page); 

  

  * A presentation of the team, their expertise, previous realised projects on wearables including contact details and CV of the management team members (max. 1 page); 

  

  * A project pitch (max. 5 pages), where the project is proposed on the basis of the NABC method (Need, Approach, Benefit, Competition), including a description of the technology and design thinking methodologies used in the project; 

  

  * A prototype plan of how they will develop over the course of 6 months from where the project is located in the development process at the time of submission to a fully market ready prototype. The plan will describe the key milestones for the project, a brief description of the deliverables and the budget. (max. 2 pages); 

  

  * A concrete business case for the application of their idea. (max. 1 page); 

  

  * a video pitch of the project (max 3 minutes), consisting of all above topics. 

  

All application documents will remain private, in line with F6S privacy
policy, with the exception that All WEAR consortium members, reviewers, judges
and mentors will have access to these data over the course of the WEAR
project. Reviewers will have access to data regarding the proposals they have
to review during the selection period. F6S does not provide further data
regarding the format for data storage and where it is stored. WEAR will
download project applications and store the information on the shared drive.
​Information of the selected teams will also be transferred from F6S to
DataScouts to allow for monitoring.

It is worth noting that WEAR ​may use another platform for round 2 that has
more transparency around its use of the data it collects. WEAR will request
that all applicants data be deleted after the selection process by F6S.

**WEAR Online Network and Ecosystem** -​ The WEAR DataScouts platform enables
the analysis​ of the WEAR ecosystem data to uncover and analyse connections
between those registered in our network. The​ data processed via DataScouts
will be stored on Digital Ocean servers, which are located in Amsterdam and
are owned by TeleCityGroup. These servers are serviced as virtual private
servers and are virtually accessible only by DataScouts admins, which is the
only way to access the raw data itself. Physical access is entirely
restricted, except for specific Digital Ocean engineers.  12  The
aforementioned data is also available through the DataScouts application. The
collected and processed data will be kept on these servers for the duration of
the project or for the duration of the DataScouts SLA. The data is both stored
in a MySQL compatible format, in MariaDB and is indexed in ElasticSearch, both
systems are hosted on Digital Ocean servers. DataScouts also hosts the WEAR
Sustain public website, accessible by the WP6 team.

**Offbott** 13  -​ This online​ journal, will be used by the funded teams to
supply the WEAR consortium with regular updates on the team’s progress. Every
day the Offbott will send an email to every member of the funded teams. It
logs all responses and the consortium will be able to access this for team
management and reporting purposes. The consortium and project mentors will
have access to the reports. And at the end of the project there will be a
journal for each project to review. All responses and journals can be
downloaded in PDF format. There is a hosted version and WEAR is exploring how
the project may host its own version.

**External dissemination software -** For​ dissemination activities WEAR uses
a number of readily available tools to support our activities. These include
the EventBrite event management software, for registration and attendance
details and Mailchimp email software for communications. These will be​ used
by the consortium for community engagement and dissemination. These online
platforms store the collected data for an indefinite period and their privacy
policies comply with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework  14  . Eventbrite’s​
partnership with MailChimp allows seamless integration. Databases may be
downloaded and stored on the WEAR consortium’s shared drive. Any data shared
with the general public will be will be limited to numbers, and​ broad
demographic details via reports. The remainder of data will be restricted as a
way of protecting personal information. All software is password protected
accessible only by the WEAR consortium and it’s project team.

As mentioned in section 2.2. raw WEAR Sustain video and image data will be
stored in Flickr. This online account allows members 1​ TB of photo and video
storage. The consortium will have access to these, making only a selection of
the highest quality images shareable.

**All other electronic data** generated​ during research activities, such as
mailing lists and surveys will be stored on the consortium’s shared Google
Drive, backed up by google servers, or locally at partner’s workstations and
servers. Locally, consortium partners must have secure servers for any
information to be stored and server drives must be backed-up periodically. A
backed up copy is considered sufficient for these types of data. The project
will be working with a wide range of hubs and partners and the project will
encourage them to store shared documents via the consortium's servers. The
project is exploring ethical storage and is considering moving our storage
once a suitable solution is found.

###  5 RESPONSIBILITIES AND RESOURCES

####  Responsibilities

Imec, as the project coordinator, is responsible for implementing the Data
Management Plan (DMP).

In principle, all partners are responsible for data generation, metadata
production and data quality. Specific responsibilities are to be assigned
depending on the data and the internal organisation in the WPs and tasks were
data is created. Thus, for example, WP6 is responsible for coordinating
dissemination data, such as video material from events, and WP2 for
coordinating data in the DataScouts ecosystem. In the case of acquisition of
data the leader of WP5 will organise the responsibilities for all the partners
that will contribute to the Sustainability Strategy and Toolkit.

####  Resources

The cost for data management for the data processed within DataScouts and the
website for dissemination is already covered in WP2 Ecosystem Intelligence
Platform.

Dataset collection, storage, backup, archiving and sharing will be, in the
majority of cases, the responsibility of the partners who creates the data
and/or the servers in which they will be stored. imec, as the coordinator will
be responsible for ensuring the backup of any shared drives and servers.

It is not yet known if any extra resources, such as physical storage and media
is needed. **Completion of research**

imec as the coordinator will choose the most suitable repository to deposit
data and publish results. The coordinator will also inform OpenAIRE, the EU-
funded Open Access portal.

####  Data Security

WEAR Sustain intends to make its data public at the point of use. To ensure
any individual's’ personal privacy is protected during the sharing of data,
the consortium is reviewing a number of platforms for sharing of data. The
project currently uses a shared Google Drive and Dropbox for the transfer of
files but is considering other ethical platforms, such as the Signal app which
sends files as a secure and encrypted chat application.

The data processed within DataScouts is backed-up on dedicated servers on a
daily basis, over a secure SSL connection. When data recovery is needed, the
back-ups will be transferred over the same connection. Every server where data
is being kept is only accessible through an SSL connection with public key
authentication.

On Google Drive the information stored is not personal information. Any
information related to individuals has already made this information available
to the public by those individuals. This data is recoverable through back ups
managed by Google.

On F6S data is located at https://www.f6s.com/terms-and-conditions and
regularly updated. F6S does not provide further data regarding the format for
data storage and where it is stored.

####  Data Sharing

WEAR Sustain has its lineage in another EU project called FET-Art and its
umbrella initiative ICT&Art Connect, which Camille Baker and Rachel Lasebikan
were involved in developing. Imec’s acquired company iMinds was a partner in a
follow-up study. The European Commission’s (ICT) department DG-Connect has​
recently launched the STARTS initiative  22  to promote inclusion of artists
in innovation projects funded by H2020. WEAR is one of the STARTS projects
covered by the STARTS Initiative. WEAR will also work closely with other
STARTS-related projects VERTIGO  23  , STARTS Prize  24  , FEAT  25  and
BRAINHACK  26  to ensure the full exploitation of WEAR’s research and for
community building. Close​ interaction will to support our activities in
Europe and participants from the FET-Art projects have been invited to
participate in WEAR via the online network.

####  Ethics and Compliance

This section is to be covered in the context of the ethics review, ethics
section of DoA and ethics deliverables. Ethics is covered in a​ separate
deliverable D7.1, which describes the principles and procedures for
collection, storage, processing and destruction of personal data in WEAR
Sustain’s activity (and in D7.2 due in M7, which is more focused on the
selected teams' handling of data).

The consortium is exploring new ethical ways of sharing and storing data, and
ethical compliance within the project. This is being researched as part of the
project, to be managed by WP7.

####  Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

Sustainable Innovation teams funded by the WEAR Sustain project will own their
own IPR for their prototype developments. They do agree to share their
methodologies and processes for the duration of the WEAR Sustain project so
that we may obtain the research needed for the Sustainability Strategy and
Toolkit. Details of this are described in the Open Call section of the
website.

Table 1 below provides the details of the owners of each of the data to be
collected and produced by the WEAR Sustain project. As a general principle,
for collected data the owner will be remain the same. For produced data the
producer of the data will own the data unless they have agreed to produce the
data on WEAR Sustain’s behalf.

The WEAR team has a separate consortium agreement in place to addresses any
copyright issues with the consortium.

22  23  ​https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/ict-art-starts-platform

​http://vertigo.starts.eu/vertigo-project/

24  25  https://starts-prize.aec.at/​

26 ​http://featart.eu/ http://hackthebrain-hub.com/

**Table 1 - D6.11 Data management Plan:**

**Table 1 WEAR Sustain collected and produced Data**

This document lists all the data that WEAR Sustain is collecting or generating
during the lifetime of the project, how it will be exploited and of it will be
shared for verification or reuse. It also identifies which data will be kept
confidential, which will be made openly available and where it will be stored.

The spreadsheet can be viewed at:

_https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Zw8mOl6VVetBUarQeSIgonc0M8H2x8tIAozaCTE151o/edit?usp=s
haring_