Share data during research project, publish FAIR when ready

This research project has researchers in several organizations and countries, and funding from the Research Council of Finland. The research group will collect about 10 TiB of data, and they have agreed on the rights with the data providers and their research organizations. They will need to share the data among themselves, but not publicly, over the entire duration of the project.

Since there are no needs to restrict access, policies require that the data is published according to the FAIR principles. Moreover, domain practice requires that the data should be kept available for 10 years after publication. All members of the project have agreed that the main partner organization (a Finnish university) will take over data curation after publication, until the deletion of the data. According to the FAIR principles, the metadata should be kept available even beyond that. After the ten year period, a new assessment can be made about possible long-term preservation needs before the data is deleted.

CSC offers different services for managing data in all phases of a research project. This example use case can be realized by using CSC’s Fairdata services as follows: