Development Of An Integrated Lifecycle Of RDM Tools For Data Publication: Looking Back And Forward @ KU Leuven

KU Leuven started on the road to FAIR in 2018 with the creation of a general institutional RDM policy based on the FAIR principles and the motto "as open as possible, as closed as necessary", accompanied by the decision to set up institutional tools to enable the implementation of the policy. This includes the development and launch of the Dataverse-based institutional data repository, RDR, and the local iRODS instance, ManGO, which supports data management in a structured and metadata-rich way during the research project. To fully enable FAIR data management, it was important to facilitate interoperability of data by connecting these infrastructures with each other and other RDM tools. In this context, a Dataverse plug-in was developed by the RDR team to easily pull data from other RDM tools and for ManGO, a connection was set up to push data to RDR as well. This ensures that researchers who use ManGO or RDR have a seamless experience in moving data from ManGO to RDR that are ready for publication. All work is shared in open-source where possible to make sure that not only KU Leuven data, but also RDM infrastructure is as open as possible.