SEDIMARK knows the importance of regulating data management issues within a context such as the one posed by the project. A solution will be considered where consortium partners will deposit all underlying information on data-related business processes (data storage, data provisioning, processing etc.) of the SEDIMARK solution clearly and transparently.
The purpose of the Data Management Action Plan (DMAP) is to identify the main data management elements that apply to the SEDIMARK project and the consortium. This document is the first version of the DMAP and will be reviewed as soon as there is a clearer understanding of the types of data that will be collected.
Given the wide range of sources from which data will be collected or become available within the project, this document outlines that the consortium partners will consider embracing and applying the Guidelines on FAIR Data Management in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe (HE); “In general terms your data should be ‘FAIR’, that is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable” [1], as information about data to be collected becomes clearer”.
Open access is defined as the practice of providing on-line access to scientific information that is free of charge to the reader and that is reusable. In the context of research and innovation, scientific information can refer to peer-reviewed scientific research articles or research data.
The SEDIMARK consortium strongly believes in the concept of open science, and in the benefits that the European innovation ecosystem and economy can draw from allowing the reuse of data at a larger scale.
Hence, as described in this report, the consortium will deposit the public data produced within or collected for the purposes of the project in an open data repository once the exploitation rights are safeguarded. It will permit the user to access, mine, exploit, reproduce and disseminate free of charge. Furthermore, it will provide information as well about tools and instruments necessary for the project results whenever possible.
As Data Security and Data Privacy are of particular concern, SEDIMARK will consider the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) privacy principles from conception to design to build a novel privacy-preserving architecture.
Moreover, this report addresses the ethics issues detected in SEDIMARK with the aim of:
All in all, this report represents a second snapshot taken mid-way through the execution of the project (already in its eighteenth month of activity). The final update on the data management plan will be reported after at M36, September 2025, as part of a dedicated section for data management plan updates.
Due to the nature of this report, iterative and offering annual updates, the new content provided in this iteration will be written in a dark blue colour, sticking to the project's stylistic guidelines.
The D1.3 deliverable can be downloaded from here.
