PARSEC Data and Digital Output Management Plan and Workbook

PARSEC Data and Digital Output Management Plan and Workbook for the Belmont Forum 

Collaborative Research Action (CRA) Science-driven e-Infrastructure Innovation (SEI) for the Enhancement of Transnational, Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Data Use in Environmental Change

Project Building New Tools for Data Sharing and Reuse through a Transnational Investigation of the Socioeconomic Impacts of Protected Areas (PARSEC)

This Data and Digital Output Management Plan and Workbook (DDOMP) are used by the PARSEC team to establish the policies the team will follow, document the operational procedures necessary to comply with those policies, and the planned activities necessary to manage PARSEC data, software, and other digital outputs.  This is a working document. 

This document describes activities necessary during the PARSEC research lifecycle as well as those necessary to preserve all digital outputs for use into the future. It is the intent of the PARSEC team to make our digital outputs as open as possible, discoverable, accessible, well-documented to promote the broadest reuse. These elements are both recommended and required by the Belmont Forum Open Data Policy and Principles^[1] and the FAIR Guiding Principles^[2].

The Belmont Forum Open Data Policy and Principles state that:

Datasets should be:

• Discoverable through catalogues and search engines
• Accessible as open data by default, and made available with minimum time delay
• Understandable in a way that allows researchers—including those outside the discipline of origin—to use them
• Manageable and protected from loss for future use in sustainable, trustworthy repositories

The FAIR Guiding Principles state that data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.

^[1] http://www.belmontforum.org/about/open-data-policy-and-principles/

^[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201618.

This work is part of the Building New Tools for Data Sharing and Re-use through a Transnational Investigation of the Socioeconomic Impacts of Protected Areas (PARSEC) project with funding provided by the Belmont Forum.