D10.2. Action Plan for Repository Sustainability

The Deliverable D10.2 is part of WP10 “CHAIMELEON Repository Sustainability after project end”, framed under T10.1 “Actions to ensure CHAIMELEON repository Sustainability”.

The deliverable has the aim to design the CHAIMELEON repository sustainability plan during and beyond the duration of the project while providing a governance structure to pursue this goal. The sustainability plan can be thought of as made of two different sets of actions that together can guarantee the CHAIMELEON sustainability: the short-term actions and long-term actions.

The short-term actions and promotional actions (paragraph 3) consists of including CHAIMELEON metadata in the EIBIR Imaging Biobank Catalogue (paragraph 3.1) and in the creation of specific “Open Challenges “ and/or “Open Competitions” to promote and incentivise the use and popularity of the repository (paragraph 3.2). In the paragraph 3.3, the importance of the legal framework and the design of the European Union’s digital transformations policies are stressed out for the CHAIMELEON sustainability.

The long-term sustainability plan can provide a long-term existence of the repository: this goal can be achieved in the context of the EHDS (paragraph 4.1) and thanks to the EUCAIM project (paragraph 4.2). The importance of the inclusion of the CHAIMELEON repository in the EUCAIM framework is presented together with the needed steps to take for the integration process (paragraph 4.3). Legal and ethical issues of the integration are reported in paragraph 4.4.

The Governance structure is defined in paragraph 5.1, while the access model (to define the access roles and the responsibilities related to the access itself) and the definitive version of the DSA are presented in paragraph 5.2 and 5.3, respectively.

A summary of the cost and revenues is made in the next paragraph, 6.

Briefly, the conclusions for the deliverable D 10.2 are drawn in paragraph 7.