Research Data Management in Plasma Science

Implementation of data management standards and adoption of the FAIR data principles are more and more requested by funding agencies in recent years. This results in several new challenges for the scientific community. Research in low-temperature plasma physics is characterized by table-top experiments and a large variety of plasma sources and measurement devices, which are often first developed in the course of the research. Therefore, there are usually no established research data management (RDM) standards. Moreover, the documentation of research results is extremely heterogeneous. This not only complicates the implementation of structured RDM, but also reduces the comparability and reusability of data.  To overcome this challenges, research groups at INP, RUB and CAU have joined forces to develop common RDM standards and tools. In monthly workshops, local requirements are discussed and gradually transformed into proposals for community standards, see https://www.plasma-mds.org. The poster reports on the status of the activities and presents how everyone can contribute and use the already developed tools for their own work.