Blue-Cloud 2026 - D1.2 Data Management Plan

The Blue-Cloud 2026 project is successor to the Blue-Cloud project which established a cyber platform bringing together and providing access to: (1) multidisciplinary data from observations and models, (2) analytical tools, and (3) computing facilities essential to support research to better understand and manage the many aspects of ocean sustainability. Blue-Cloud 2026 aims at a further evolution of the pilot infrastructure into a Federated European Ecosystem to deliver FAIR and Open data and analytical services, instrumental for deepening research of oceans, EU seas, coastal and inland waters. Data management is an essential and integrated activity throughout the project lifetime and should be deployed and supported by the Blue-Cloud 2026 services and their evolutions as planned. The data managed by the project and subject to the present DMP include: * input data from existing known aquatic data infrastructures, as managed by project partners and possibly some international data infrastructures, brought together from various existing sources via the Data Discovery & Access service (DD&AS); * other input data, uploaded by the user; * resulting datasets/derived datasets, created by users as a result of their usage of Blue-Cloud analytical services; * research outputs and datasets generated by the Blue-Cloud VRE * research outputs and datasets generated by the Blue-Cloud 2026 website. This initial Blue-Cloud Data Management Plan (DMP) has been compiled to serve as a guidance giving directions. This DMP follows the Horizon Europe guidelines for Data Management Plans and associated template. It is organised around solutions and approaches aiming at making data findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable (FAIR). For that purpose, an overview is given of data (to be) managed by the Blue-Cloud 2026 project and solutions, both 'existing/already planned' and 'possibly to be developed' are given for applying FAIR principles. In addition, the DMP considers other aspects of data management, such as resources, data security and ethical aspects. This initial DMP will be updated over the course of the project whenever significant changes arise and/or more insights become available as part of the ongoing developments.