D6.3 - Data Management Plan

This deliverable report describes the creation of the BIO-SUSHY Research Output Management Plan (ROMP) as an extension of a Data Management Plan (DMP) and contains the first version as Annex I. With the success of the FAIR principles to foster making more and more data available for re-use, it became obvious that the high-quality knowledge management approaches should also be applied to other research outputs to increase their re-usability. To spearhead such a comprehensive approach, BIO-SUSHY has started to go beyond the DMP, mandatory for all projects of the Horizon Europe Framework Programme, by covering all research outcomes including but not limited to data, protocols, models, software, surveys and responses, reports and publications in the ROMP and specifying common management recommendations and guidelines across all research outputs as well as specific approaches and tooling for individual types. To be able to cover the requirements of all output types, BIO-SUSHY, in collaboration with the MACRAMÉ project (EU Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, grant agreement No. 101092686), performed an evaluation of existing DMP templates proposed in the DMPonline, DS Wizard and ARGOS tools. None of them is providing all functionality and flexibility needed by BIO-SUSHY, especially with respect to covering computational methods and research software. Thus, the BIO-SUSHY ROMP was newly designed by starting from the structure of the ARGOS tools, transferring sections of the other tools to strengthen specific aspects and adding additional sections based on the FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS), TRUST and CARE data guidance principles.