Deliverable 1.5 Cos4Cloud Data Management Plan (DMP)

This document contains the Data Management Plan (DMP) for the Co-designed Citizen Science Observatories Services for the EOS Cloud project (Cos4Cloud). This plan is included within the context of Work Package 1 and describes the types of data that will be generated or collected during the project, the standards that will be used, and the ways in which the data may be exploited and shared including the data security and ethical aspects. An online Data Management Planning tool (DMPonline: https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk) has been used to elaborate this deliverable. This tool provides a template with the guidelines to assure a complete description of the project DMP following the FAIR principles, i.e. making data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. The FAIR principles are promoted by the different scientific institution in order to enable Open Data as well as Open Science and can be described as follows:

• Findable: Rich metadata for data describing is needed, as well as a globally unique and eternally persistent identifier. Indexing in a searchable resource is also recommended.

• Accessible: Data and metadata are retrievable by their identifier using a standardized protocol. Metadata needs to be accessible even if data is not.

• Interoperable: Language used needs to be formal, accessible, shared and broadly applicable for knowledge representation. Reference to other data or metadata is recommended.

• Re-usable: Metadata and data should be accompanied by accurate and relevant attributes, accessible under usage licence and meet domain-relevant community standards.