ARGOS is a platform for creating structured, shareable plans that define how data, software, and other digital outputs are managed. But it doesn’t stop there. With ARGOS, you can also create a space that keeps your research activities, contributors, and tools linked from the start, and see the full picture as your work evolves; supporting organisations, research teams, and data stewards in designing planning workflows that reflect their practices, policies, and responsibilities.

Whether you're preparing a Data Management Plan or aligning your processes with internal workflows, ARGOS helps you clarify what needs to be captured, why it matters, and how it connects across teams and systems.

Because Plans shouldn’t live in isolation. They should move with your data, your people, and your systems, connecting across roles, tools and outputs as a framework for action, coordination, and reuse.

Plans in ARGOS carry structure and context. They can inform decisions, trigger workflows, and support collaboration across departments, projects, or organisations.

Research today is complex. Teams are larger, outputs are more diverse, and responsibilities are shared across roles, systems, and timelines. Without structure, important details get lost and the value of what’s produced becomes harder to manage, reuse, or track.

Planning brings clarity. It sets expectations early, connects decisions to responsibilities, and makes outputs easier to organise, validate, and follow through. From Data Management Plans to Software Management Plans and other evolving formats, planning is becoming a core part of how research and digital assets are handled.

ARGOS provides that structure and connections so planning doesn’t just meet requirements, it drives what actually happens.

ARGOS is hooked on the OpenAIRE ecosystem comprising a diverse set of services and tools for Open Science and Scholarly Communication, from technical to educational and consultative in nature. OpenAIRE services and tools are provided for immediate consumption by end-users, i.e. researchers, research communities, research performing or funding organisations and policymakers. Moreover, OpenAIRE services are exploitable by software engineers. ARGOS integrates other OpenAIRE services to maximise efficiency of operations in Open and FAIR ecosystems and to make connections that add value in Open Science at global scale. OpenAIRE services that ARGOS connects to are: