TOOLS IN RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT (RDM)

 
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TOOLS IN RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT (RDM) 
 
DATA MANAGEMENT 
 
DS-Wizard Create Smart Data Management Plans for FAIR Open Science 
OpenRefine Data curation tool for working with messy data 
Renamer4Mac File renaming software for Mac  
CODE SHARING 
 
GitHub Versioning system, used for sharing code, as well as for sharing of small data 
Integration of GitHub with Zenodo to get DOIs for code and make it citable  
Jupyter Jupyter notebooks allow to share code, documentation 
DATA SEARCH 
 
FAIDARE Research data across distinct databases 
OpenAire Explore Meta search-engine for discovery of data from trusted repositories, maintained by 
the EU. 
Google Datasetsearch Search-engine for datasets mainly from Open Government repositories 
METADATA STANDARDS 
 
Data Curation Centre Metadata list Metadata standards 
https://www.dcc.ac.uk/guidance/standards/metadata/tools 
https://metadatacenter.org/ Tool for generating exportable sets of metadata 
International Compilation of Human Research Standards The International Compilation of Human 
Research Standards enumerates over 1,000 laws, regulations, and guidelines (collectively referred to 
as standards) that govern human subject protections in 133 countries, as well as standards from a 
number of international and regional organizations 
International Society for the Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC) Data standards and formats for 
reporting flow cytometry data 
ISA-tools Open source framework and tools helping to manage a diverse set of life science, 
environmental and biomedical experiments using the Investigation Study Assay (ISA) standard 
IUPAC-IUBMB Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature (JCBN) A collaborative resource from 
IUPAC and IUBMB for naming standards in biochemistry 
MCPD  he Multi-Crop Passport Descriptor is the metadata standard for plant genetic resources 
maintained ex situ by genbanks. 
RDA Standards Directory of standard metadata, divided into different research areas 

 
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Research Object Crate (RO-Crate) RO-Crate is a lightweight approach to packaging research data 
with their metadata, using schema.org. An RO-Crate is a structured archive of all the items that 
contributed to the research outcome, including their identifiers, provenance, relations and annotations. 
FAIR sharing A curated, informative and educational resource on data and metadata standards, inter-
related to databases and data policies. 
Loterre a linked open terminology resources platform developed by the Inist-CNRS, for 
multidisciplinary terminological scientific resources sharing, complying with the linked open data 
standards and the FAIR principles. 
VOCABULARY 
 
Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV)  
DATA SECURITY 
 
VeraCrypt ist eine Software zur Datenverschlüsselung, insbesondere zur vollständigen oder partiellen 
Verschlüsselung von Festplatten und Wechseldatenträgern. 
GA4GH data security toolkit Principled and practical framework for the responsible sharing of genomic 
and health-related data. 
ISO/IEC 27001 International information security standard 
 
DATA MANAGEMENT PLANS 
 
DMPTool Build your Data Management Plan 
DMPonline A free tool to write, share and export a data management plan. Built-in data management 
plan templates for many major funders. 
DMP Canvas Generator Questionnaire, which generates a pre-filled a DM 
DMPTuuli Finland Data management planning tool 
DMPonline Belgium A free tool to write, share and export a data management plan. Instance aimed at 
Belgian researchers with built-in data management plan templates for the major funders. 
DMPlanner Semi-automatically generated, searchable catalogue of resources that are relevant to data 
management plans. 
DMP OPIDoR Online questionnaire for the development of data management plans - repository of 
DMPs 
EasyDMP DMP creation, versioning and sharing 
maDMP - Research Bridge Machine-Actionable Data Management Plan | Webinar (2016) on making a 
good data management plan 
Research Management Plan Machine actionable DMPs 
 

 
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LEGAL ISSUES 
 
DMLawTool 
ETHICS 
 
Consent Form Wizard 
Informed Consent Ontology 
MONARC A risk assessment tool that can be used to do Data Protection Impact Assessments 
Tryggve ELSI Checklist A list of Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications (ELSI) to consider for 
research projects on human subjects 
Ethics – RRI Tool 
ANONYMISATION 
 
Amnesia tool für sensiblen Daten. Amnesia is a GDPR compliant high accuracy data anonymization 
tool 
Arx anonymization tool 
Anonymisierungstool QualiAnon 
PSEUDONYMISATION TOOL 
 
Pseudonymisation tool – recommended by the European Commission 
PATIENT IDENTITY MANAGEMENT 
Privacy Impact Assessment Tool Privacy Impact Assessment Tool is a software, that allows you to 
carry out Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) independently (prevent duplicate registration of patients, 
provide distinct pseudonyms for patients in different contexts, keep a protected link between the 
different pseudonyms, preserve the possibility for re-identification by a trusted third party). 
LICENSING 
 
Digital Curation Center: How to License Research Data?  
Common license types 
EUDAT license selector wizard EUDAT's wizard for finding the right licence for your data or code. 
SOFTWARE 
 
DATAVERSE Open source research data repository software 
Docker Docker is a software for the execution of applications in virtualized environments called 
containers. It is linked to DockerHub, a library for sharing container images 

 
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GitLab GitLab is an open source end-to-end software development platform with built-in version 
control, issue tracking, code review, CI/CD, and more. Self-host GitLab on your own servers, in a 
container, or on a cloud provider 
R Markdown R Markdown documents are fully reproducible. Use a productive notebook interface to 
weave together narrative text and code to produce elegantly formatted output. Use multiple languages 
including R, Python, and SQL. 
Note-taking software 
Microsoft OneNote → Guide to using OneNote as a Research Notebook 
Evernote 
Notion  
Standard note → open source 
Boostnote → open source 
Turtl → open source, cross-platform, client-side encryption 
Joplin → open source, supports end-to-end encryption, cross-platform 
Zim → desktop wiki application, open source, Linux, Windows 
TiddlyWiki → wiki application, open source 
ELN comparison grid using the ELN Matrix, researchers can compare and contrast the numerous tools 
available today, and also explore individual options in-depth. 
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS 
 
Federal Act on Copyright and Related Rights 
Patents Act, PatA 
Trade Marks and Indications of Source 
Act on the UniBE UNIG Art. 70 und PG Art. 60 
European IP Helpdesk, SME 
Copyright (protection of works in literature, arts and computer programmers) Federal Act on Copyright 
and Related Rights 
Commercial protection rights (patents, brands, designs) Federal Act Patents Act, PatA 
Patent Ordinance  
Federal Act on the Protection of Trade Marks and Indications of Source 