Research Data Management (RDM)

Many funding programmes, especially public funding organisations, now require that the results of the research they fund be made available in repositories. Furthermore, a clearly defined data management in the form of a DMP is increasingly required.

A data management plan DMP is used to describe the data, processes, responsibilities, storage and all procedures related to the research data of a scientific project.

The professional management of research data is increasingly recognized as an integral part of scientific work, but it often involves demanding methodological, technical, and organizational requirements. To ensure this, data stewardship has established itself as a new professional field in recent years.

A data steward network is currently being established at BOKU. ​

The FAIR Principles form the basis for the processing and subsequent use of research data. In order to fulfill these, the data must be findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable.

Researchers are encouraged to store their data in a repository or to upload it to BOKU's own community on Zenodo.

In order to publish data, data protection, exploitation and patent aspects and questions must be clarified in advance and the conditions for subsequent use must be regulated. This can be done easily and clearly using open content licences - CC licences.

The possible further use or reuse and reproducibility of research results will contribute to transparency in scientific research.

For this purpose, a link collection was created and a collection of important documents on the topic of FDM was created.