Will you use metadata to describe the data?Will your metadata use standardised vocabularies? Will you make the metadata available free-of-charge?Will your metadata be harvestable?Will you use a naming conventions for your data?Will you provide clear version numbers for your data?Will you provide persistent identifiers for your data?Persistent identifiers Will you provide searchable metadata for your data?Will you use standardised formats for some or all of your data?Are the file formats you will use open?Please describe which data are not in an open format and why?Please describe which data are not in an open format and why? Do supported open-source tools exist for accessing the data? Please describe which data require proprietary tools to access the data? Please describe which data require proprietary tools to access the data?Will you provide metadata describing the quality of the data?
Are there ethical or legal issues that can impact sharing the data?ReasonWill all your data be openly accessible?How will the data be made available? Is the storage sufficiently secure for the data and does the storage provide backup and recovery procedures?ReasonReason Will you provide methods and tools to access the data?Will you also make auxiliary data that may be of interest to researchers available?Reason
Will you use a standard vocabulary for your data types?Will you provide a mapping to more commonly used ontologies? Will you provide a mapping to more commonly used ontologies?
When do you plan to make your data available for reuse?Please specify how long after the project has ended the data will be made available?Please describe the reason the data will not be made available.What internationally recognised licence will you use for your data?Do you have documented procedures for quality assurance of your data?Will you provide any support for data reuse?How long do you intend to support data reuse?Please specify why the data will be unsupported for reuse.
How will the cost of making your data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable be covered?Will you identify a data manager to manage your data, if not who will be responsible for the management of your data?Identify the people or roles that will be responsible for the management of the project dataHow do you intend to ensure data reuse after your project finishes?
What do you plan to do with research data of limited usePlease describe why the data will be kept on insecure, unmanaged storage
Do you make use of other procedures for data management?Please provide links to documentation on these other procedures.