Data management policy (DMPol) template for research infrastructures

Research infrastructures should have a research data management policy that offers guidelines to staff and users and ensures the appropriate maintenance of research data. This entails having clear instructions on how and where the produced data can be preserved for reasonable periods of time and on how the user should make the data available for verification and (re-)use.1 Data produced by the research infrastructure should aim to be FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable)2. 1European Commission, (2016) European Charter for Access to Research Infrastructures - Principles and Guidelines for Access and Related Services (Chapter 4 – Principles, pp. 10–11). 2FAIR Data Principles