ARGOS is an open and extensible service based on OpenDMP software that simplifies the management, validation, monitoring and maintenance of Output Management Plans (OMPs), such as Data Management Plans (DMPs) or Software Management Plans (SMPs). It is the first service connected to a knowledge graph (see OpenAIRE Graph) and applied the FAIR principles to the OMPs/ Management Plans. Here, researchers find curated templates by data stewards, research support staff, research funders and institutions to create and follow their plans together with their peers.
ARGOS & the Research Management Ecosystem
Why the Need?
With the growth of digitisation in every aspect of our lives, there is an uncontrollable amount of data that is produced each day.
As research entered the phase of digitisation, it was difficult to handle data efficiently. The adoption of Open Science has made the transition to digital research easier providing, among other things, the means to properly organise and manage research data.
DMPs played a pivotal role in providing a framework to plan research activities and describe produced datasets in a standardized way so that they can be found and reused by others.
Recently, these efforts have been enhanced with SMPs supporting the management and development of research software.
Following this evolution, ARGOS enables researchers to create OMPs, i.e. management plans for all kinds of outputs and activities, including datasets, software, workflows, methodologies, and many more according to given research needs each time.
Where is it Used?
ADMINISTRATION
ARGOS is connected to administration workflows and services of institutions to facilitate communication and information exchange for enhanced support on the Plans across the different actors (data stewards, ethics committee, repository manager, etc).
VALIDATION
The service incorporates a mechanism to validate that all the necessary fields of Plans are completed and that information on the Plan addresses research standards such as FAIR principles and DMP evaluations.
AUTOMATION
Pre-filling information to the Plans is possible by connecting to external services. Some of them are OpenAIRE Explore and Zenodo, but the possibilities to configure new sources are endless.
ARGOS in the OpenAIRE Ecosystem
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:
Utilises OpenAIRE pool of resources and APIs to provide quick input to users (e.g. CORDIS, Datacite, re3data, ORCID, etc).
Closes the DMP lifecycle by offering a DMP platform to expose DMP for their immediate publication in and Open and FAIR manner (DMPs are assigned to DOIs, ger licenses, follow versioning mechanisms, etc).
Collects contextualised information about ma-DMPs to understand how RDM and DMPs evolve in time and support decisions making of funders and policymakers.
Enriches the ma-DMP entity in the OpenAIRE Graph for open scholarly communication information and creates relationships with other research outputs and links, adding in the OpenAIRE LOD ecology.
Adds ma-DMPs in the OpenAIRE search engine and makes them findable under a dedicated resource type category “data management plan.”
