D5.6 Data Management Plan Document Final release

This document (SCORE Deliverable 5.6) is the final version of the Data Management Plan (DMP) document of the SCORE project, funded under the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101003534. This version is delivered at the end of the project.

Objective of SCORE is to develop and evaluate solutions based on Ecosystem Based Adaptation (EBA) approaches, Citizen Science, and cutting-edge digital solutions, such as digital twins that equitably and sustainably enhance coastal city climate resilience. A co-design approach has been pursued in the 10 European coastal city living labs
(CCLL) set up in the project to devise and demonstrate the SCORE solutions. In implementing its workplan, SCORE collected and generated data obtained fromdifferentsources and provided datasets usefulforresearch beyond the project itself. Most of research has been managed and processed, within the project life, through the SCORE Information System (SIP). Permanent and certified public repositories have been considered for long-term storage to facilitate the re-use of consolidated datasets. Zenodo (zenodo.org), the open data repository managed by CERN has been adopted within the project. 

In this context, the Data Management Plan (DMP), in its first (D5.2) and interim (D5.5) versions, outlining the way that data are collected or generated within the project, how theywill be organized,stored, and shared according to the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles, is a critical element of the project. It specifies
which data will be publicly available through public repositories and which will be available only to the consortium (confidential) fromtheproject’sinitialstage. The present document updates the Data Management Plan Document, Update release theversion of theDMP documentreleased atMonth 24 as SCOREDeliverable5.5. TheDMP is a living  documentthat must be updated along the project life. As outlined in the GA, the complex structure of the project, the heterogeneity of the 10 established living labs, and the complexity of the workplan require frequent updates of the DMP that are consolidated in contractual deliverables, such this one. The SCORE grant agreement foresees updates with a tentative frequency of 6 months although some updates are not contractual deliverables.

This document is structured following the H2020 DMP template. The Data Summary section provides general information about the data usage in the project and its work packages, namely the purpose and sources of data collection/generation in relation to the achievement of project andwork packages’ goaland therole of SIP. Aspecific
subsection has been added to describe the characteristics of SIP that are relevant to the DMP. The Section on FAIR data describes the general methodologies that the project followed to ensure that data be managed according to the FAIR principles and practices. Next sections explain other aspects, such as the Allocation of resources for the management ofresearch data, Data security and Ethicalaspects,thelatterbeing crucial in SCORE because significant living lab activities involve dealing with citizens and stakeholders. The concluding section illustrates forms used internally to documentthedatasets and, finally, lists the datasets retained for archiving in permanent repositories.