Project-Specific Research Data Management Beyond Repositories for FAIR Research Practice

Interdisciplinary research projects aim to answer overarching questions combining research of multiple disciplines. Besides FAIR requirements this requires effective Research Data Management (RDM) to support the synthesis necessary to provide such desired answers and involves integrating data from various disciplines. Research projects benefit from early decision-making on core aspects for organization and management of data. We propose a framework to identify such aspects which require early decisions for successful planning and execution. Following up on our activities and experiences in the interdisciplinary research project CRC 1266 (Scales of Transformation), we propose an approach that focuses on reliability of external repositories and combines it with a project-specific wrapper-like infrastructure consisting of roles, processes and a software system deeply integrated into the research project for FAIR and enriched research data management, presentation and synthesis.