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The RDM website promotes awareness of RDM issues among TU Graz researchers. RDM encompasses steps ensuring data can be found, accessed, and reused with proper description.
This site offers RDM tools, services and materials from the RDM Team at TU Graz.

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      Imagine you are working on a new research project. You are faced with a lot of data that you need to collect, store, organize, and manage. You know all these tasks ares important, but you are not sure how to get started with them. This is where a Data Management Plan (DMP) comes in. A DMP is a document that describes how you will handle your research data. It is an important part of your research project because it helps you to organize, secure, and make your data accessible.

      • Introduction: Here you explain what your research project is about, and what data you will collect.
      • Data definitions: In this section, you define the data you will collect. You should describe the data types, formats, and sources of the data.
      • Data collection and access: Describe how you will collect your data and how you will enable others to access it.
      • Data storage and preservation: Describe how you will store your data and how you will protect it from loss or damage.
      • Data quality and accessibility: Describe how you will ensure the quality of your data and how you will make it accessible to others.

      The RDM Team, especially the Data Stewards, will support you in creating a DMP. Whether you need to provide this for the funding body or simply want to have a professional DMP for your research project, the Data Stewards can give you comprehensive advice, review your DMP and provide feedback before finalization.

      • Fulfil all requirements of funding bodies with regard to DMPs
      • DMPs are part of good scientific practice
      • Each research project, including master's and dissertation projects, should have its own DMPs
      • You can identify potential bottlenecks in the project at an early stage: e.g. storage, licenses, agreements, backups
      • Organize and manage your data
      • Improve the reproducibility of your research
      • Contact the RDM Team or a Data Steward when a DMP needs to be created.
      • Make an appointment (online or f2f) if desired, and determine what is to be discussed.
      • Together with a Data Steward, go through all the relevant steps. Be sure to ask the Data Steward all questions you may have!
      • Send your draft DMP to the Data steward and wait for her feedback. Where appropriate, discuss any changes on your draft.