SubSol Draft data management plan

“The purpose of this Data Management Plan (DMP) is to provide an analysis of the main elements of the data management policy that will be used by the SUBSOL project with regard to all the datasets that will be generated or collected by the project. The DMP is not a fixed document, but evolves during the lifespan of the project; in fact it functions as a dynamic document of agreements. SUBSOL is aiming to provide robust, effective, sustainable, and cost-efficient answers to freshwater resources challenges in coastal areas worldwide through a market breakthrough of SWS. In order to accomplish that, it is necessary to develop practical approaches which will accelerate acceptance of SWS and will broaden the market reach and uptake. These approaches consist of continuation and replication of successful full scale pilots, development of decision support tools and business cases, assessment of market readiness and of policy and legal
framework conditions, and capacity building activities. As such the project will collect and generate (broadly) two types of data: (a) data related to the pilots themselves and (b) data related to SWS design, implementation and uptake. The DMP explains the differences between these two types of data and explains how the project intends to manage them. It presents the project’s strategy on standardisation, archiving and data sharing and provides an overview of all key aspects related to data within the SUBSOL project.”

(Citaat: van den Berg, G., Makropoulos, C., Karavokiros, G. – Draft data management plan – SubSol D5.1 2017)