#  1\. Introduction

##  1.1. Introduction and overview of MARINERG-i

The H2020 MARINERG-i project is coordinated by the MaREI Centre at University
College of Cork Ireland. The consortium is comprised of 13 partners from 12
countries (Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, France, Holland, Ireland, Italy,
Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and Sweden). MARINERG-i brings together
all the European countries with significant testing capabilities in offshore
renewable energy. The MARINERG-i project is a first step in forming an
independent legal entity of distributed testing infrastructures, united to
create an integrated centre for delivering Offshore Renewable Energy.
MARINERG-i will produce a scientific and business plan for an integrated
European Research Infrastructure (RI), designed to facilitate the future
growth and development of the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) sector. These
outputs are designed to ensure that the MARINERG-i RI model attains the
criteria necessary for being successful in an application to the European
Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) roadmap in 2020\.

##  1.2. Data Plan Description

This document is the _Initial_ Data Management Plan (DMP), which forms the
basis for deliverable D1.10. Recognising that DMP’s are living documents which
need to be revised to include more detailed explanations and finer granularity
and updated to take account of any relevant changes during the project
lifecycle (data types/partners etc.). This edition will be followed by two
further volumes: “The Detailed DMP”, (D1.11) and “Final Review DMP”, (D1.12).
The format for all three volumes is based on the template taken from the DMP
Online web-tool and conforms to The "Horizon 2020 DMP" template provided by
European Commission (Horizon 2020).

#  2\. Data Summary

##  2.1. Purpose of the data collection/generation

It is important to note that MARINERG-i will not create any new scientific
data e.g. from experimental investigations or actual testing of devices.
However, the discovery phase of the work programme (WP 2 and WP3) does involve
detailed information gathering in order to profile multiple attributes of the
participating testing centres and their infrastructure; which may in practice
be regarded as a form of highly granular metadata. Along-side and associated
with this there is a requirement to compile and include in a database (WP 7
Stakeholder Engagement; WP 6 Financial Framework), personal contact and other
potentially private, proprietary, financial or otherwise sensitive information
which will be maintained as confidential. Derived synthetic, statistical, or
anonymised information will also be produced which is destined for release in
the public domain. Further details of proposed data collection and use are
contained in D7.3 Stakeholder Database. Details of the procedures for
collection and use as well as their compliance with ethics and data protection
legislation are provided in D10.1 and D10.2.

##  2.2. Relation to the objectives of the project

The collection of data will be undertaken as a primary function of four key
work pages (WP 1, 2, 6 &7) which together form the Discovery phase of the
overall work plan, the general scheme of which is as follows:

  * Discovery Phase - Engagement with stakeholders, Mapping, profiling RIA and einfra 

  

  * Development Phase – Design and Science plan, Finance, Value statements 

  

  * Implementation Phase – Business plan and implementation plan including roadmap. 

  

Data and information collected during the discovery phase will feed into and
inform the subsequent phases of development and implementation. Specifically,
the objectives for WP2&3 listed below and deliverables listed in Table 1 (D2.1
–D3.4) provide an obvious and clear rationale for the collection and
operational use of several main categories of data within the project. Also
listed in Table 1 is deliverable 7.3 the stakeholder database. This database
will contain names, contact details, contact status and a range of other
information pertinent to the stakeholder mapping and engagement process, which
is a key objective within WP7.

WP 2 Objectives

The facilities to be included in MARINERG-i will be selected so as to
contribute to the strengthening of European, scientific and engineering
excellence and expertise in MRE research (wave, tidal, wind and integrated
systems) and to represent an indispensable tool to foster innovation across a
large variety of MRE structures and systems and through all key stages of
technology development (TRL’s 1-9). In order to achieve this, a profiling of
the European RI’ is to be conducted on both strategic and technical levels and
considering both infrastructures’ scientific and engineering capabilities.

Both existing facilities and future infrastructures should be identified and
characterized so as to account for future expansion and development. In
parallel, user’s requirements for MRE testing and scientific research at RI’s
should be identified so as to optimize and align service offerings to match
user needs with more efficiency, consistency, precision and accuracy.

All this information will be efficiently compiled so as to provide the basis
to inform the development of the design study and science plan to be conducted
under WP 4.

WP 3 Objectives

The set of resources, especially facilities, made available under MARINERG-i
currently have individual information systems and data repositories for
operation, maintenance and archival purposes. Access to these systems may be
generally quite restricted at present, constrained by issues relating to
ownership, IP, quality and other standards, liability, data complexity and
volume. Even where access is possible, uptake may not be extensive in the
absence of a suitable policies and effective mechanisms for browsing,
negotiation and delivery. A primary objective of WP3 is to instigate a program
to radically improve all aspects pertaining to the curation, management,
documentation, transport and delivery of data and data products produced by
the infrastructure. All this information will be efficiently compiled so as to
provide the basis to inform the development of the Design Study and Science
Plan to be conducted under WP4.

_Table 1 List of deliverables from WP 2, 3, 6 & 7 . _  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

**Deliverable**

**Number**

</th>  
<th>

**Deliverable Name**

</th>  
<th>

**WP**

**Number**

</th>  
<th>

**Lead beneficiary**

</th>  
<th>

**Type**

</th>  
<th>

**Dissemination level**

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

D2.1

</td>  
<td>

MRE RI End-users

requirements profiles

</td>  
<td>

WP2

</td>  
<td>

3 - IFREMER

</td>  
<td>

Other

</td>  
<td>

Confidential,

only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services)

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

D2.2

</td>  
<td>

MRE RI Engineering and science baseline and future needs

profiles

</td>  
<td>

WP2

</td>  
<td>

3 - IFREMER

</td>  
<td>

Other

</td>  
<td>

Confidential,

only for members of the

consortium

(including the Commission

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

D3.1

</td>  
<td>

MRE e-Infrastructures End-Users requirements

profiles

</td>  
<td>

WP3

</td>  
<td>

3 - IFREMER

</td>  
<td>

Other

</td>  
<td>

Services)Confidential,

only for members of consortium (including Commission Services)

</td>  
<td>

the the

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

D3.2

</td>  
<td>

MRE e-Infrastructures baseline and future needs

profile

</td>  
<td>

WP3

</td>  
<td>

3 - IFREMER

</td>  
<td>

Other

</td>  
<td>

Confidential,

only for members of consortium (including Commission Services)

</td>  
<td>

the the

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

D3.3

</td>  
<td>

Draft Report MRE eInfrastructures strategic and technical alignment

</td>  
<td>

WP3

</td>  
<td>

1 -

UCC_MAREI

</td>  
<td>

Report

</td>  
<td>

Confidential,

only for members of consortium (including Commission Services)

</td>  
<td>

the the

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

D3.4

</td>  
<td>

Final Report MRE e-

Infrastructures strategic and technical alignment

</td>  
<td>

WP3

</td>  
<td>

1 -

UCC_MAREI

</td>  
<td>

Report

</td>  
<td>

Public

</td>  
<td>

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

D6.1

</td>  
<td>

Report on all RI costs and revenues

</td>  
<td>

WP6

</td>  
<td>

4 - WAVEC

</td>  
<td>

Report

</td>  
<td>

Public

</td>  
<td>

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

D7.3

</td>  
<td>

Stakeholder database

</td>  
<td>

WP7

</td>  
<td>

5- Plocan

</td>  
<td>

Database

</td>  
<td>

Confidential,

only for members of

</td>  
<td>

the

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

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

consortium (including Commission Services)

</td>  
<td>

the

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

2.3. Types and formats of data generated/collected.

As stated in the previous section there are two main types of data being
collected:

  1. Data relating to the profiling of the Research Infrastructures (RI’s) and existing einfrastructure 

  

  2. Contact details for MARINERG-i stakeholders 

  

  

The specifics in terms of type and format for collecting, analysing, storage
of data is still under consideration, however it anticipated that initial
collection will mostly be simple text generated locally by subjects using
forms and questionnaires in MS word/excel or alternatively through a
centralised system with an online interface. Images in various graphical
formats will also form a significant element of the data collected.
Collections will also consider other forms of documentation: specifications,
standards; templates; rule-sets; manuals; guides; and various types of
framework documents; legal statutes, contracts, strategic and operational
plans, etc. More detailed specifications/conventions governing key parameters
for all of the above will be provided to data providers/gathers in advance to
ensure current and future interoperability and compatibility.

The fields currently being used to collate stakeholder contact information are
listed in Table 2 below:

Table 2 Stakeholder database field structure and type  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

Field

No

</th>  
<th>

Field Header

</th>  
<th>

Field type

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

1

</td>  
<td>

Order #

</td>  
<td>

number

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

2

</td>  
<td>

Date

</td>  
<td>

Number

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

3

</td>  
<td>

Category Stakeholders

</td>  
<td>

Text

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

4

</td>  
<td>

If Other category, please include it here

</td>  
<td>

Text

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

5

</td>  
<td>

Name of the Organisation Stakeholder

</td>  
<td>

Text

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

6

</td>  
<td>

Acronym Stakeholder

</td>  
<td>

Text

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

7

</td>  
<td>

Address

</td>  
<td>

Text

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

8

</td>  
<td>

Country

</td>  
<td>

Text

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

9

</td>  
<td>

Web

</td>  
<td>

Text

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

10

</td>  
<td>

Phone(s)

</td>  
<td>

number

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

11

</td>  
<td>

E-mail

</td>  
<td>

Text

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

12

</td>  
<td>

Contact Person

</td>  
<td>

Text

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

13

</td>  
<td>

Role in the Organisation

</td>  
<td>

Text

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

14

</td>  
<td>

MARINERG-i partner providing the information

</td>  
<td>

Text

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

15

</td>  
<td>

Contact providing the information

</td>  
<td>

Text

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

16

</td>  
<td>

Energy sectors

</td>  
<td>

Text

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

17

</td>  
<td>

If Other Sector, please include it here

</td>  
<td>

Text

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

18

</td>  
<td>

R&D&I Area

</td>  
<td>

Text

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

19

</td>  
<td>

If Other R&D&I Area, please include it here

</td>  
<td>

Text

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

20

</td>  
<td>

Does the stakeholder provide permission to receive info from MARINERG-i?

</td>  
<td>

Text

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

21

</td>  
<td>

Further Comments

</td>  
<td>

Text

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

##  2.4. Re-Use of existing data

The RI profiling information to be gathered will augment and greatly extend
existing generic baseline information gathered under the Marinet F7 project in
the respective research infrastructures of the MARINERG-i partnerships, and
some new information that has been added recently through the Marinet2 H2020
project. The latter is currently accessible through the Eurocean Research
Infrastructures Database (RID) online portal system
(http://rid.eurocean.org/), where it is accessible to RI managers to update.
Content for the stakeholder’s database will be initially obtained from
existing Marinet and PLOCAN databases, re-use permission will be obtained from
the individuals concerned. Since this is a live database, additional contact
information is being added primarily via our website where interested
stakeholders can sign up to be included as well as receive newsletters and
invitations to events. In addition, partners will email their contacts
informing them about the project and encouraging them to join our mailing
list/stakeholder database.

2.5. Expected size of the data

The total volume of data to be collected is not expected to exceed 100GB

##  2.6. Data utility: to whom will it be useful

As stated above the data being collated and generated in the project are
primarily for use by the partners within the project in order to prepare
specific outputs relevant to the key objectives. Summary, derived and or
synthetic data products of a non-sensitive nature will be produced for
inclusion in reports and deliverables some of which will be of interest to a
wider range of stakeholders and interested parties including but not limited
to the following:

National authorities, EU authorities, ORE industry, potential MARINERG-i node
participants, International Authorities, academic researchers, other EU and
international projects and initiatives.

#  3\. Fair Data

##  3.1. Metadata and making data findable

There is no specific aim in the Marinerg-I project to generate formally
structured or relational databases. The activity conducted as part of WP2 and
WP3 will require the use of existing databases and collation of information
from Institutions portals and through a questionnaire to be distributed to
potential stakeholders.

Hence metadata will be based on existing metadata formats and standards
developed for the existing services. Additional metadata will be created for
specific fields if necessary, after elaboration of the questionnaires.

More specifically the profiling of the Research Infrastructure will be for a
large part based on the information available on the Eurocean service, and on
services such as Seadatanet for the E-infrastructures.

Definition of naming conventions and keywords will be based on the same
approach. Specific metadata related to the stakeholders’ database would be
created according to fields presented in Table 2.

MARINERG-i is aware of the EC guidance metadata standards directory
[http://rdalliance.github.io/metadata-directory/standards/]. However given the
nature of the data being compiled, and the early stage of the project
lifecycle no firm decisions have yet been made regarding the use of particular
metadata formats or standards. This will be considered and dealt with further
in the subsequent iteration of this document (D1.11) including the following
aspects: discoverability of data (metadata provision); identifiability of data
and standard identification mechanism; persistent and unique identifiers;
naming conventions; approaches towards search keywords; approaches for clear
versioning; standards for metadata creation

##  3.2. Open accessibility

Produced data will for a large part be based on processing of existing
datasets already available in open access. This data will be made openly
available.

Restriction could apply to datasets or information provided by stakeholders in
cases where they specify such restrictions (for instance personal contact
details) that shouldn’t be made openly available for confidentiality reasons.

Publicly available data will be made available through the MARINERG-i web
portal.

No specific software should be required apart from standard open source office
tools required to read formats such as “txt”,”asci”, “.docx”, ”.doc”,
”.xls”,”.xlsx”, ”PDF”, “JPEG”, “PNG”, “avi”,”mpeg”,…

Data and metadata should be deposited on the MARINERG-i server.

##  3.3. Interoperability

The vocabulary used for all technical data types will be the standard
vocabulary used in marine research and offshore renewable experimental testing
programmes such as Marinet, Marinet2, Equimar…

For the other datatypes other interoperable data types will be chosen, where
possible making use of their own domain specific semantics.

##  3.4. Potential to increase data re-use through clarifying licenses

The project does not foresee the need to make arrangements for licensing data
collected.

Data should and will be made available to project’s partners throughout the
duration of the project and after the end of the project (at least until the
creation of the ERIC) and where possible made available to external users
after completion of the project.

Some of the data produced and used in the project will be useable by third
parties after completion of the project except for data for which restrictions
apply as indicated in

It is expected that information e.g. as posted on the website will be
available and reusable for at least 4 years, although the project does not
guarantee the currency of such data past the end of the project.

#  4\. Allocation of Resources

##  4.1. Explanation for the allocation of resources

Data management can be considered as operating on two levels in MARINERG-i.
The first is at the point of acquisition where responsibility is vested in
those acquiring the data to do so consciously and in accordance with this DMP
and associated Ethics requirements as set out in D 10.1 /D10.2. The second
level is where processed and analysed synthetic data products are passed to
the coordinators for approval and publication.

Data security, recovery and long term storage will be covered in the
subsequent iteration of the DMP (D1.11.)

#  5\. Ethical Aspects

Details pertaining to the ethical aspects in respect of data collected under
MARINERG-i are covered in D 10.1 /D10.2. This will as a minimum include
provision for obtaining informed consent for data sharing and long term
preservation to be included in questionnaires dealing with personal data.