Research Data Management

Data should be discoverable by both humans and machines. Rich metadata should be available online in a searchable resource, e.g. a data repository, and the data should be assigned a persistent identifier, e.g. a DOI.

Accessible does not mean that data need to be open to public. In case the access to the data is restricted, access conditions should be made clear to users who wish to reuse the data. Also, metadata should be accessible even when the data is not available.

Data should be able to integrate with other data, applications and workflows. Hence, open and common formats, standards, and controlled vocabularies should be used where possible.

Data should be well-documented and assigned with a clear license to govern the conditions on reuse, and provenance information to describe how, why and by whom the data have been created and processed.