Data Stewardship Wizard
Data Stewardship Wizard is a simple and powerful tool for researchers and data stewards to create data management plans. It helps to get a grip on good, FAIR-oriented Data Stewardship and get help from experts.
Create comprehensive data management plans.
About
The Data Stewardship Wizard guides researchers and data stewards to a high-quality Data Management Plan that meets the FAIR principles. A logical and effective flowchart reduces the risk of forgetting important details in data management. Data management professionals can use the DS Wizard as a checklist.
With links to the content of Barend Mons' book on data stewardship, external sources and a facility where data stewards can share knowledge by giving feedback. Data stewards can add their own sources and new areas of expertise.
The importance of a good data management plan
A data management plan (DMP) defines the data generated in a research project and describes the plan for managing and sharing the data.
- It saves time and money. A DMP helps to predict the technical expertise needed for your research. Managing digital data can take up a significant part of the total budget of a life science research project.
- It prevents potential problems in projects such as not being able to reproduce results exactly, not knowing what the latest version is or where specific data is stored.
- It ensures that research data is secured, efficiently annotated and stored safely. Less risk of data loss or data theft. Annotation ensures that the process of obtaining data is transparent and clear for everyone. In this way, data can be used and reused in other research projects, other topics or even in another field of research.
- It is often mandatory for receiving grants from international funding organizations.
Getting started
Register for DSW and start a demo of DSW to try out the features or download and run your own copy.
Anonymous users can use the Demo Questionnaire. With this sample Data Stewardship Planner it is not possible to save or export the answers.
Support
For further information and support, please contact Dr Rob Hooft.
Further information
DTL has developed a Data Stewardship Wizard in collaboration with colleagues from the Czech ELIXIR node. The development was partly funded by an ELIXIR implementation study.
