DMP collaboration
Argos is an open and collaborative platform developed by OpenAIRE to facilitate Research Data Management (RDM) activities concerning the implementation of Data Management Plans. It uses OpenAIRE guides created by the RDM Task Force to familiarize users with basic RDM concepts and guide them throughout the process of writing DMPs. It also utilises the OpenAIRE pool of services and inferred sources to make DMPs more dynamic in use and easier to be completed and published. Argos is based on the OpenDMP open source software and is available through the OpenAIRE Service catalogue and the EOSC.
Is Argos designed for one specific funder, e.g. the EC/Horizon Europe?
Argos is a flexible tool, designed to accommodate all research performing and research funding organisations’ policies and Research Data Management (RDM) needs. It already supports templates for different authorities. These templates are created by Admin users in Argos. In addition, we currently work to provide non-administrative users with the capability to modify templates according to their own needs.
Why use Argos?
Argos is easy to use and navigate around. It familiarises users with the DMP process and provides guidance on basic RDM concepts so that users find useful resources to learn from without having to leave the Argos environment. Users can invite their colleagues and collaboratively work on completing a DMP. Moreover, Argos is an integral part of the OpeAIRE ecosystem and the Research Graph. Argos integrates other services of the ecosystem to enable contextualisation of information, which is especially useful when data are re-used, for example to understand how/ if they can be repurposed.
Who is Argos for?
Argos is designed as a tool for inclusive use by researchers, students, funders, research communities and institutions. It can be used in the context of research projects’ conduct to comply with funders’ RDM requirements, as a tool in support of literacy programmes in academia or can be independently deployed to meet given stakeholder demands. Also, it is available in native languages, thanks to the help of OpenAIRE NOADs, which strengthens common understanding of all researchers involved in the DMP writing process. By using Argos, researchers and students are able to create their DMPs in collaboration with other colleagues, learn basic RDM concepts throughout the process and publish DMPs as outputs in an open and FAIR manner, among other things by assigning DOIs and licenses and by maintaining DMPs as living documents through versioning. At the same time, Argos can be configured and deployed by funders, institutions and research communities. They can plug in their own services and/ or make use of OpenAIRE underlying services that Argos is built with ad-hoc.
Service Provider: OpenAIRE
Support:
ARGOS Helpdesk