Research Data Management Decision Tree

Researchers often face the same stumbling blocks. To support them, we have developed a RDM Decisional Tree starting from the fundamental bricks of the data lifecycle and posing a series of questions to help researchers navigate:

1) the domain specific nature and origin of the data they are handling;

2) Privacy/Ethics requirements (e.g. GDPR);

3) Intellectual Property Rights;

4) active data storage;

5) long-term deposit and preservation.

This diagram has been created by the team of data steward at the University of Bologna (UNIBO, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna) in October 2022. It has been developed in parallel to the Research Data Management: Data Lifecycle, available here: 10.5281/zenodo.7249050