Taking into account that first young researchers have joined the project about
4 months ago, we do not expect any considerable output in terms of their data
provision plan at current stage. Therefore, precise information related to the
data produced by ESRs will be given in the further versions of the DMP. The
expected size can neither be predicted at this stage but it is reasonable to
assume that it will reach the tens of Gigabyte range.

Main types of data to be generated in ATHOR can be approximately divided into
3 different groups:

  * **Project rules and follow up data** : Grant and Consortium Agreements, Gantt Chart and Actions Plan, administrative and financial data, templates, surveys, management files 

  

  * **Research data** : it covers the data collected within the frames of the project subject including analysed data. In a research context, examples of such data include graphs and images, statistical data, parameters, experimental conditions, experimental observations, results of measurements etc. The focus will be made on the availability of this research data in digital form. 

  

  * **Data related to training activities** : Personal Career Development Plan (PCDP), Training & Visit Plan, Lecture notes, Powerpoints, Video Records, E-Learning tools, MOOC. 

  

  * **Data related to dissemination activities** : publications, presentations/posters, seminars/newsletters, dedicated short videos 

  

These types of data include data of different confidentiality levels that can
be schematically represented as in the Figure 1 (inspired by 5G! Pagoda D 1.2
- Open Data Management Plan, p.8). In this way, a dominant part of
communication data and some part of research data is rendered public, while
project data that ensures project’s functioning is principally kept
confidential (on UCloud).

The data generated by ESRs strongly depends on the individual doctoral
projects, tools and research methods used within these projects. Whenever
possible, the dataset will be made available online using the following
formats:

  * Text content: Acrobat PDF/A (.pdf); Comma-Separated Values (.csv), Microsoft Office or Open Office Formats (.docx, .xls, ,pptx, .odt, .ods, .odp); Plain Text US-ASCII/ UTF-8 (.txt); XML (.xml) 

  

  * Graphic content (.jpg, .png, .svg .tif, .tiff) 

  

  * Audio content (.aif, .aiff, .wav) 

  

  * Video content (.avi, .mp4)  Modeling data (.mat) 

  

The project will assume the principle of using commonly used data formats for
the reason of compatibility, efficiency and access.

**Figure 1. Distribution of ATHOR project data in the confidentiality grid**

#  FAIR data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable

##  Data storage  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

**ETN-ATHOR**

  1. – Proposal-Valuation-GA-CA 

  

  2. – Potential Additional Funds 

  

  3. – Team 

  

  4. – Gantt Chart-Actions Plan 

  

  5. – Meetings 

  

  6. – Supervisory Board (SB) 

  

  7. – Finance Committee (FC) 

  

  8. – Industry Advisory Board (IAB) 

  

  9. – Recruit. Skill Progress. Committee (RSPC) 

  

  10. – ESR Council (ESRC) 

  

  11. – Training & Knowledge Transfer Committee (TKTC) 

  

  12. – State of the Art 

  

  13. – WP1 - Improvement of measurements 

  

  14. – WP2 - Advanced characterization 

  

  15. – WP3 - Innovative modelling 

  

  16. – WP4 - Advanced measurements 

  

  17. – WP5 - Training, mobility 

  

  18. – WP6 - Knowledge Dissemination 

  

  19. – WP7 - Management Activities 

  

  20. – ESRs working space 

  

  21. – Dissemination 

  

  22. – Scientific Publications 

  

  23. – Deliverables and Milestones 

  

  24. – Image gallery 

  

  25. – Public 

  

  

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

The overall data produced and/or collected by each consortium member
organisation has to be carefully stored and managed by this organisation. In a
preliminary stage of production (and/or collection), a local storage by the
authors is not excluded. When close to final version, all produced data have
to be carefully stored by the authors in the central repository  (
_https://ucloud.unilim.fr_ )  dedicated to ATHOR project by the coordinating
university of Limoges. All local and central repositories are to be secured
using the latest security protocols. The access to the central repository is
regulated by the project coordinator and project manager. It is provided for
project consortium and to other linked parties upon request from a project
team. The Ucloud platform is hosted by UNILIM servers, regular files backup is
ensured by the local informatics services, additional archiving is made by
designated project members on hard drive supports. The main Ucloud project
repository is structured in the way, presented in the scheme of Figure 2.

Ucloud, being the central “data bank” feeds other platforms linked to the
project. For instance, as it has been mentioned in Deliverable 7.2, at current
stage ATHOR Principle Investigators with the lead of RWTH academic pole are
establishing an e-learning program “Eleonor” in the frames of Modular Object-
Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (Moodle) that is planned to be hosted by
UNILIM server. Such Moodle platform will store educational material on the
subject of ATHOR project in written and visual form. It will also have two
different access modes: private and public. The confidentiality status of each
document deposited on the platform will be defined by IP owners of the
document.

In the frames of project data management, all participants attempt to follow
best practices for data generation, storage and sharing, i.e. document
changelog, unified name attribution and appropriate repository are kept as
clear as possible. The documents are preferably shared within the consortium
via indication of its placement in a database. To facilitate document
evaluation and review, all deliverables and official documents are created in
agreement with established templates for main MS Office formats.

Each Work Package or task leader is responsible for timely preparation of
corresponding deliverables and required materials, while the project
coordinator assumes the

responsibility for management activities and project

administration. **Figure 2. Directories tree of Ucloud repository of UNILIM**

When a collection of data is ready to be published in public space, the last
final version of these data currently stored on UCloud is upload on the most
pertinent open access public platform. Depending of the type of data, it could
be:

  * **For project description** : ATHOR website (  _www.etn-athor.eu_ )  , Youtube Channel dedicate to ATHOR project, Refractories WorldForum (  _www.refractories-worldforum.com_ ) 

  

  * **For research data** : Zenodo platform (  _https://zenodo.org_ ) 

  

  * **For** **data related to training activities** : ATHOR website (  _www.etn-athor.eu_ )  , Youtube Channel dedicate to ATHOR project, Moodle platform dedicated to ATHOR project 

  

  * **For data related to dissemination activities** : ATHOR website  ( _www.etn-athor.eu_ )  , Youtube Channel dedicate to ATHOR project, Refractories WorldForum (  _www.refractories-worldforum.com_ )  , CNRS Hal platform (  _https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr_ )  , Zenodo platform (  _https://zenodo.org_ ) 

  

##  Making data findable, including provisions for metadata

In order to keep data findable, it is necessary to provide its metadata.
Metadata is a systematic method for describing such resources and thereby
improving access to them. Author, date created, date modified and file size
are examples of very basic document metadata.

Considering the strongly interdisciplinary nature of the project, ATHOR's
consortium favours the adoption of a broad and domain agnostic metadata
standard that the EU recommends to its member states for recording information
about research activity: the Common European Research Information Format
(CERIF) standard is described at  _http://www.eurocris.org/cerif/main-
featurescerif_ .

An additional advantage of a CERIF inspired standard is that ATHOR's DMP
managing institution (University of Limoges) currently uses a research
information system developed by Elsevier that implements the CERIF standard
(PURE).

For publication data unique identifiers such as Digital Object Identifiers
(DOI) will be used. According to authors knowledge it is the most common way
for data identification. The repositories such as Zenodo or OpenAIRE (Open
Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe), both or one of which is planned
to be used for data publishing already provide persistent identifiers for data
sets.

By one of the upcoming reporting periods, as soon as sufficient amount of data
is produced within the project, consortium leaders will consider the
distribution of survey template to all ESRs to collect the information on:

  * Data set reference and name; 

  

  * Data set description; 

  

  * Data formats; 

  

  * Faced difficulties/risks while data collection and analysis; 

  

  * Standards and metadata 

    * How is data created? 

  

    * What standards or methodologies did you use? 

  

    * How did you structure and name your folders and files? 

  

    * How did you track the changelog? 

  

  

  * Data sharing; 

  

  * Archiving (storage and backup); 

  

  * Ethical issues; 

  

  * Other aspects (share of responsibilities within the team related to data lifecycle) 

  

Currently, all data is stored on Ucloud platform and with the clear indication
of data subject, authors and change log history when necessary.

##  Making data openly accessible

As mentioned in the previous section 2.3, after receiving the authorization of
all concerned parties, it is planned to deposit the collected data on the most
quoted repositories like  _OpenAIRE_ or  _Zenodo_ that allows researchers to
deposit both publications and data, while providing tools to link them.

It is expected that data related to the social media, to any publicity,
designated courses, open access publications, survey results, public
deliverables will be made openly available by default. It is agreed within the
consortium that the information, that has to be kept confidential within ATHOR
will be marked with a special digital stamp with a mention “keep information
private within ATHOR”. Before any release of information, the authors of the
document in question have to sign an “Authorization letter” clearly indicating
his/her name, date, entity, the title of the document. A template of such
authorization letter is available on Ucloud:
_https://ucloud.unilim.fr/public/authorization-letter-form_ .  This procedure
was considered compulsory to avoid IP conflicts within the consortium and
violation of the rules of good scientific practice and protection of personal
data.

For some cases, in order to avoid multiplication of desynchronized versions of
the data related to the same action and to moderate the use of virtual storage
space, the consortium considers to preserve and make public only metadata,
while removing raw data itself. The virtual address of the main and unique
dataset (Ucloud platform) needs to be provided in parallel with metadata. In
this way, the collected data remains findable and accessible.

Since the H2020 requirement for Open Access publishing is fully embraced by
ATHOR project, the project will ensure both “green” (in addition to
publication in subscription journals, the copy of an article is deposited into
an institutional repository such as Research Repository UCD) and “gold”
(publications available directly from the publisher after paying author’s
fees, envisioned in the project’s budget) data publishing.

While ensuring the internal data storage and backup, the project obliges to
publish the public results through the following channels:

  * “Open data” section of the project website:  _www.etn-athor.eu_ menu. 

  

  * Zenodo  ( _https://zenodo.org_ )  central repository recommended by the Horizon2020 online manual where public deliverables and publications will be uploaded and connected to the OpenAIRE platform. The advantage of Zenodo is that it is “open in every sense”, hence, there is no need to explore any kind of arrangement with this repository, neither documentation, nor data access committee to access the data uploaded. 

  

Since there is no any sufficient scientific data produced within the ATHOR
project yet, these data repositories are currently empty.

  * Diffuse or publish the appropriate type of data via ATHOR social channels, i.e. Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube, Twitter. 

  

  * National portals for data publishing, for instance  _http://theses.fr/_ in France for depositing doctoral thesis manuscripts. 

  

##  Making data interoperable

As mentioned in section 1. “Data Summary”, in order to comply with
interoperability and re-usability requirements and to facilitate the exchange
between researchers and institutions, best practices for file formats will be
used in ATHOR project. When possible, data will be rendered available in the
format consultable with the help of free of charge software (for example Open
Office formats for text documents). The depositors will also strive for using
a standard vocabulary for all data types present to allow interdisciplinary
interoperability.

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

It is possible to license a produced dataset. To do so, it will be necessary
to attach Creative Commons Licence, according to the following guidelines
_https://creativecommons.org/choose/_ or  _http://ufal.github.io/public-
license-selector/_ by integrating the appropriate abbreviation into the shared
file. Since no research data has been produced to date, the specific question
of its reusability by third parties or usability period is not fully developed
in the current version of the DMP document.

#  Allocation of resources

Generally, it is hard to predict the cost of data management activities, as
many activities are an integral part of standard research activities and data
analysis. Ideally, it is necessary to estimate the time or cost needed for
activities related to data collection, data entry and transcription, data
validation and documentation and the cost of preparing data for archiving and
re-use. Those resources that include time and effort costs i.e. search costs,
maintenance of technical infrastructure, individual preparation effort needed
to use the infrastructure etc. are so-called non-monetary costs. Since ESRs
and management team are the main producers of datasets in the project, all
these costs are related to them. ATHOR consortium expects that monetary costs
for FAIR data will be minor and will be mainly related to “gold” publishing of
the articles, maintenance of hosting university servers for Ucloud and Moodle
and engagement of external workforce for producing multimedia dissemination
material.

Regarding the question of long term data preservation, no specific
arrangements has been done in the consortium yet. However, with a great degree
of confidence, it can be confirmed that it is the project coordinator with the
help of local UNILM resources who will play the major role in this task.

#  Data security

The security of the central Uclou  d _https://ucloud.unilim.fr/_ repository
and all other partner repositories is provided and guaranteed by the
respective centres for information processing of these universities.

Access to the Ucloud database is managed by the coordinator and project
manager. It is provided for project members and other parties upon request
from a project team. This space is password protected and the security of this
platform is guaranteed by the Informatics Systems Direction (DSI) of Limoges
University. Regular back up of all data stored on UNILIM servers is ensured.
The backup of Ucloud data is performed by the Limoges University server, the
history of the content can be traced back to up to three months. The selected
data, deposited in Ucloud space, will remain also available for 3 years after
the end of the project.

In addition, if the project uses Zenodo repository for data sharing, its
safety is guaranteed according to the product description (See
_https://zenodo.org/features_ )

#  Ethical aspects

According to the Annex 1 of Grant Agreement 764987 - Part B – p. 32, the ATHOR
Consortium has taken into account all requested ethics issues. For example,
the most common ethical issues include:

  * the involvement of children, patients, vulnerable populations, 

  

  * the use of human embryonic stem cells, 

  

  * privacy and data protection issues, 

  

  * research on animals and non-human primates. 

  

It also includes the avoidance of any breach of research integrity, which
means, in particular, avoiding fabrication, falsification, plagiarism or other
research misconduct.

More precisely, all the activities carried out under the ATHOR project comply
with ethical principles and relevant national, EU and international
legislation, for example the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European
Union and the European Convention on Human Rights. The tasks for ATHOR only
concern basic research activities and the project does not involve humans,
animals or cells. Due to the fact that the main domain of the ATHOR project
activity is related to materials science with the focus on refractory
materials, the risk of having ethics issues during the project is extremely
limited. Either way, within the ATHOR DoA Part A, the workpackage 8 is devoted
to the ethics issues which sets out the 'ethics requirements' that the ATHOR
project must comply with. One deliverable will be provided: D8.1 NEC -
Requirement No. 1. In the framework of D8.1, all beneficiaries and partner
organisations must confirm that the ethical standards and guidelines of
Horizon2020 will be rigorously applied, regardless of the country in which the
research is carried out.

ATHOR’s partners are not planning to use any harmful material, or process
which likely emits harmful materials. They do not use elements that may cause
harm to the environment, to animals or plants. In any case, all the partners
will follow their internal protocols to treat any material according to the
national law and EU legislation. In that way, all chemical waste is collected
and processed by a central university facility in the Universities involved
within the ATHOR project. All wastes are recycled or appropriately deposited.
Moreover, their respective researches do not deal with endangered fauna and/or
flora /protected areas.

No tests on humans or animals are planned.

ATHOR’S partners will not use nano-material in their research and they do not
do harm to the environment.

**This work is supported by the funding scheme of the European Commission,
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Networks in the frame of
the project ATHOR - Advanced THermomechanical multiscale modelling of
Refractory linings 764987 Grant.**