D6.5 - Final Data Management Plan

This document outlines the Data Management Plan (DMP) of MarinePlan, funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-12 under grant agreement No 101059407 and by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee grant numbers 10038951 & 10050537.

The scope of the DMP covers all “data” used by the project that was used to create publicly available deliverables. “Data”, therefore, encompasses a wide range of scope and purpose, and includes, among others, tabular data in binary and textual formats, geospatial data, relational databases, image and video media, documents, source code, and produced software tools.

The purpose of a DMP is to provide a protocol that 1) during project execution ensures that “data” are available, at the highest possible quality, to all project members for achieving project deliverables, 2) to allow the EU to validate project deliverables, and 3) to allow the public to scrutinize, verify and repeat project outputs for up to five years after the project has ended, adhering to FAIR and Open Science principles.