Management of data is an important element of large scale multi-disciplinary projects. As such, MARBEL will be collecting, using and generating a heterogeneous set of data throughout its lifecycle. This deliverable is the initial version of the project’s Data Management Plan and explains the proposed actions for the overall control of MARBEL’s data and publications. More specifically the following points are addressed:

The DMP provides a framework for good data handling by identifying the research data that the project expects to generate and describing which parts of the data can be shared with the public. Furthermore, it provides guidelines on naming conventions and metadata, storage of research data and steps to make them public available.

MARBEL will make use or open research data repositories such as Zenodo to comply with the Horizon 2020 Open Access policy. Public deliverables, publications and anonymized datasets will be made available with open access. Datasets generated by MARBEL will be given a persistent identifier (Digital Object Identifier, DOI), supplied with relevant metadata referencing the project name and grant agreement number. Ethical aspects related to data collection, generation and sharing will be considered for data collection, use and sharing. The DMP is a living document and will be periodically updated, as part of the project’s periodic reports in order to reflect the actual research data generated during the project and include updated instructions on accessing open data.