2nd Data Management Plan. Deliverable 5.2 of the AGROECOLOGY Partnership

This deliverable defines the data management plan (DMP) elaborated for the European partnership AGROECOLOGY. The document outlines strategies and procedures for managing all types of research outputs and data assets generated and reused throughout the partnership's lifecycle, ensuring adherence to Horizon Europe guidelines.

The document clarifies all administrative and technical concerns related to data involved in the whole project lifecycle. It emphasizes data quality, accessibility, and long-term preservation, covering data collection, storage, sharing, and preservation practices while addressing legal, ethical, and security considerations. This initial DMP aims to provide comprehensive guidelines for preserving data and other research outputs collected or generated during the partnership's implementation by consortium members and provide a strategy to promote the adoption of these general guidelines for the transnational research projects funded by the partnership.

Effective data management practices, including accurate data recording, metadata documentation, and secure storage and dissemination of results, will be performed to ensure safe and reliable data preservation.

Given the diverse range of data expected over the partnership duration, the DMP incorporates various strategies for responsible data management and is regularly revised to accommodate newly generated data throughout the partnership's lifecycle.

The first version provided information about the data management strategy and included a first identification of the research data items and other research outputs.

This second version refines the data management strategy outlined in the first DMP and presents new developments that support its implementation. As an output of the DMP, project spaces have been created on GitHub and Zenodo to strengthen the governance and visibility of research outputs. A first metadata list of data assets and research objects has been compiled. This has made it possible to identify the most common data types across the AGROECOLOGY partners and to develop specific management guidelines for each. These elements, together with information on the data pipeline from conception to publication, including metadata, quality control and privacy considerations, have been integrated into the AGROECOLOGY Partnership Data Guide. The document is openly available through the project’s GitHub space and will be continuously updated as new information becomes available.
New versions of the DMP will be released periodically to ensure that data management practices remain up to date, reflect best practices, and continue to support the partnership’s long-term objectives.