Introduction
Your research data is a major output from your research project, it supports your research conclusions, and guides yourself and others towards future research. Therefore, managing the data well throughout the project, and sharing it, is a crucial aspect of research.
Data management responsibilities
Data management includes actions throughout all stages of the research process.
In your role of researcher, you may need to:
- Write a data management plan;
- Estimate the costs of data management for a grant application;
- Ensure your data complies with ethical, policy and legal requirements;
- Store your data securely, in a resource that is sustained and accessible;
- Use metadata standards and documentation methods for your data;
- Get training about data management, including the use of data management tools and data archives.
Data management guidance
RDMkit pages
- The RDM life cycle pages give an overview of how to approach data management tasks.
- Data management plan guides you through writing a data management plan.
- Costs of data management helps you budget for your project.
- Compliance helps you comply with the institution policy, including the legal and ethical aspects.
- National resources give country-specific guidance and resources.
- Documentation and metadata helps you document data and choose the appropriate metadata standards.
- Data publication guides to find a data repository for your needs.
Other resources
- Contact the data steward in your local organisation or your national contact in the ELIXIR network.
- Your institution may have web pages about RDM and support services available. They may also give you in-person advice and provide training.
- The Turing Way handbook to reproducible, ethical and collaborative data science offers guidance to researchers in academia, industry and the public sector.
- FAIR Cookbook gives step by step recipes to complete common data management tasks.
- Data Stewardship Wizard (DSW) guides through creating a data management plan.
- FAIRification Framework guides through making your data FAIR.
- TeSS is a life science training portal, where you can search for training courses or materials on data management.
- FAIRsharing is a portal where you can search for databases, standards and policies.
- FAIR Principles gives an overview of how to make your data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR).
- 23 Things provides links to a range of useful resources on data management.
More information
Skip national tools tableNational resources
Tools and resources tailored to users in different countries.
Tool or resource | Description | Related pages | Registry |
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Belnet | Belnet is the privileged partner of higher education, research and administration for connectivity. We provide high-bandwidth internet access and related services for our specific target groups. |
Data Steward Research Software Engi... Data transfer | |
DMPonline.be | This instance of DMPonline is provided by the DMPbelgium Consortium. We can help you write and maintain data management plans for your research.
DMPRoadmap
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Data Steward Data management plan | |
Galaxy Belgium | Galaxy Belgium is a Galaxy instance managed by the Belgian ELIXIR node, funded by the Flemish government, which utilizing infrastructure provided by the Flemish Supercomputer Center (VSC).
Galaxy
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Data analysis | |
PIPPA | PIPPA, the PSB Interface for Plant Phenotype Analysis, is the central web interface and database that provides the tools for the management of the plant imaging robots on the one hand, and the analysis of images and data on the other hand. |
Plant Phenomics Plant sciences Data Steward Research Software Engi... | Tool info |
RDM Guide | RDM Guide describes Belgian data management guidelines, resources, tools and services available for researchers in Life Sciences. |
Data Steward | |
Czech National Repository | National Repository (NR) is a service provided to the scientific and research communities in the Czech Republic to store their generated research data together with persistent DOI identifier. NR service is currently under the pilot program. |
Data Steward Research Software Engi... Data storage Existing data Identifiers Data management plan | |
Galaxy MetaCentrum | Galaxy MetaCentrum is a Galaxy instance managed by the Czech ELIXIR node and e-INFRA. It provides extra support for RepeatExplorer tool for plant genomic analysis.
Galaxy
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Data analysis | Tool info |
ownCloud@CESNET | CESNET-hosted ownCloud is a 100 GB cloud storage freely available for Czech scientists to manage their data from any research projects.
ownCloud
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Research Software Engi... Data storage Data organisation | |
ELN Finder | Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) selection service. |
Documentation and meta... Research Software Engi... | |
ELN Guide | Guide for Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELN). |
Documentation and meta... Research Software Engi... | |
ELN Video Tutorials | Video Tutorials for Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELN). |
Documentation and meta... Research Software Engi... | |
GHGA | The German Human Genome-Phenome Archive. |
Data storage Documentation and meta... Data Steward | |
PUBLISSO | Open access publishing platform for life sciences. |
Data publication Data Steward | |
Galaxy Estonia | This is the Estonian instance of Galaxy, which is an open source, web-based platform for data intensive biomedical research.
Galaxy
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Data analysis | |
Datos.gob.es | Open data portal of the spanish government. A meeting point for the various actors that make up the open data ecosystem. |
Data Steward Research Software Engi... | |
Recolecta | The national aggregator of open access repositories. This platform brings together all the Spanish digital infrastructures in which open access research results are published and / or deposited. |
Data Steward Research Software Engi... | |
Red Española de Supercomputación | The Spanish Supercomputing Network’s mission is to offer the resources and services of supercomputing and data management necessary for the development of innovative and high-quality scientific and technological projects, through competitive calls based on the scientific excellence of the projects to be developed. |
Data Steward Research Software Engi... | |
RedIRIS | Spanish academic and research network that provides advanced communication services to the scientific community and national universities. |
Data Steward Research Software Engi... | |
Chipster | Chipster is a user-friendly analysis software for high-throughput data such as RNA-seq and single cell RNA-seq. It contains analysis tools and a large reference genome collection. |
CSC Research Software Engi... Data analysis | |
Cloud computing | CSC offers a variety of cloud computing services: the Pouta IaaS services and the Rahti container cloud service. |
CSC Data Steward Data analysis | |
DMPTuuli | Data management planning tool (Finland).
DMPRoadmap
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CSC Data Steward Data management plan | |
Fairdata.fi | With the Fairdata Services you can store, share and publish your research data with easy-to-use web tools. |
CSC Data Steward Data storage Data publication Existing data | |
Federated EGA Finland | FEGA allows you to store and share sensitive data in Finland in a way that fulfils all the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA)
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CSC Data Steward Data sensitivity Data publication Existing data Human data | |
Findata | The Health and Social Data Permit Authority. Findata offers services and enables secure and efficient utilisation of data materials containing health and social data. |
CSC Data Steward Data sensitivity Existing data Human data | |
Fingenious | Finnish Biobank Cooperative (FINBB) connects researchers to Finnish biomedical research. Via Fingenious® services the researcher can connect to all Finnish public bio banks. |
CSC Data Steward Data sensitivity Human data | |
High performance computing | CSC Supercomputers Puhti, Mahti and LUMI performance ranges from medium scale simulations to one of the most competitive supercomputers in the world. |
CSC Data Steward Data analysis | |
Sensitive Data Services for Research | CSC Sensitive Data Services for Research are designed to support secure sensitive data management through web-user interfaces accessible from the user’s own computer. |
CSC Data Steward Data sensitivity Data analysis Data storage Data publication Human data | |
DMP OPIDoR | Online questionnaire for the development of data management plans - repository of DMPs.
DMPRoadmap
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IFB Data Steward Data management plan | |
Open-science.it | Italian portal dedicated to the field of open science. |
Data Steward Data management plan | |
BBMRI catalogue | Biobanking Netherlands makes biosamples, images and data findable, accessible and usable for health research. |
Human data Data analysis Existing data Data storage | |
cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics | cBioPortal provides a web-based resource for researchers to explore, visualize, analyze, and share multidimensional cancer genomic datasets, as well as other studies involving multidimensional genomic data. |
Human data Data analysis Existing data Data storage | |
CBS, Statistics Netherlands | The national statistical office, Statistics Netherlands (CBS), provides reliable statistical information and data in the life sciences and health domain. |
Human data Existing data | |
Dutch COVID-19 Data Support Programme | To support investigators and health care professionals with tools and services in their search for ways to overcome the pandemic and its health consequences. |
Human data Existing data | |
FAIR-Aware | Online tool which helps researchers and data managers assess how much they know about the requirements for making datasets findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) before uploading them into a data repository. |
Data management plan Compliance monitoring ... Data publication | |
Handbook for Adequate Natural Data Stewardship | Guidelines on data stewardship and practical toolbox for researchers at Dutch University Medical Centres (UMCs). |
Human data Data management plan Compliance monitoring ... | |
Health-RI Service Catalogue | Health-RI provides a set of tools and services available to the biomedical research community. |
Human data Data analysis Existing data Data storage | |
RIVM Health and Healthcare Data | The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), together with other organisations, provides numbers and explanation on relevant topics, to prevent duplication of data collection. |
Human data Existing data | |
Technology Hotels | More than 130 Technology Hotels offer access to high-end technology and expertise in the field of bioimaging, bioinformatics, genomics, medical imaging, metabolomics, phenotyping, proteomics, structural biology, and/or systems biology. |
Human data Bioimaging data Proteomics Compliance monitoring ... | |
BioData.pt Data Management Portal (DMPortal) | This instance of Dataverse is provided by the BioData.pt. We can help you write and maintain data management plans for your research.
DATAVERSE
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Data Steward Data storage | Tool info Standards/Databases |
BioData.pt Data Stewardship Wizard | This tool guides users through generating Data Management Plans.
Data Stewardship Wizard
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Data Steward Data management plan | Tool info |
dados.gov.pt | Open data portal of the Portuguese Public Administration. |
Data Steward Data publication Existing data | |
eLab BioData.pt | An electronic lab notebook (ELN) for BioData.pt training programmes (data wiped periodically). |
Data Steward Principal Investigator... Documentation and meta... Data quality Project data managemen... Data provenance Machine actionability | |
INDEXAR | National directory of repositories and digital scientific journals, in the fields of science and culture. |
Data Steward Data publication Existing data | |
Ready for BioData Management? | Capacity building program in data management for the life sciences to empower researchers and institutions in managing their data more effectively and efficiently. |
Data management plan Project data managemen... | |
Agrischema | Linked data schemas for the fields of agriculture, food, agri-business, plant biology. |
Data Steward Documentation and meta... | |
CyVerse UK | The CyVerse Data Store is a cloud-based storage space, accessible via the CyVerse Discovery Environment (DE), a virtual bioinformatics lab workbench, and developer APIs such as the AGAVE API. In the DE, users can share datasets and tools to analyse data with as many or as few people as they wish. |
Data Steward Documentation and meta... | |
DMPonline | DMPonline is a web-based tool that supports researchers to develop data management and sharing plans. It contains the latest funder templates and best practice guidelines to support users to create good quality DMPs.
DMPRoadmap
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Data Steward Data management plan | |
InterMine | InterMine integrates heterogenous data sources, making it easy to query and analyse data. |
Data Steward Documentation and meta... | |
Jisc Research data management toolkit | Guidance on the research data lifecycle that signposts resources from a wide range of organisations and websites. |
Data Steward Documentation and meta... |