STELLAR Data Management

Momchil Dechev, Kaman Kozarev, Rositsa Miteva

and the STELLAR Team

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

What is data management plan or DMP?

• A data management plan or DMP is a formal document that outlines how data are to be handled both during a research project, and after the project is completed.
• The goal of a data management plan is to consider the many aspects of data management, metadata generation, data preservation, and analysis before the project begins; and prepared for preservation in the future.

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

Short Historical Note

• DMPs were originally used in 1966 to manage aeronautical and engineering projects' data collection and analysis;
• Expanded across engineering and scientific disciplines in the 1970s and 1980s.
• Up until the early 2000s, DMPs were used "for projects of great technical complexity, and for limited mid-study data collection and processing purposes.
• In the 2000s and later, E-research and economic policies drove the development and uptake of DMPs.

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

Main goal

• The H2020 Twinning project STELLAR will help to transfer scientific and technical knowledge and capacity in radio astronomy from the highly experienced staff in ASTRON and DIAS to IANAO and TUS staff.

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

Types and Formats of Data Generated/Collected

Specific formats used for radio astronomical analysis:

• - Flexible Image Transport System (FITS)
• - Radio Astronomy Measurement Set (MS)
• - Hierarchical Data Format (HDF5)

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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

Allocation of Resources

URANIA Cluster

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

Allocation of Resources

The data will be made FAIR at no additional cost to the project.

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The reporting, dissemination, and outreach data will be hosted on the Institute of Astronomy's GSuite cloud service. This service is provided free of charge to educational institutions by Google. The STELLAR website is hosted on IANAO infrastructure, funded by the LOFAR-BG consortium.

Virtual Machine for schools and trainings

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

Allocation of Resources

Much of the data generated during the STELLAR project will be preserved for a period of at least 5 years.

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

Making Data Openly Accessible

The openly available data will be shown or linked to on the project website:

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https://stellar-h2020.eu

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There will be no need of special methods or software tools to access the data. It will be served over https (standard browser access)

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

Making Data Openly Accessible

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

Data Security

STELLAR will promote data encryption and backup distribution dealing with sensitive data of individual stakeholders.

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Data will be stored on the responsible partner’s storage system. Every partner is responsible to ensure that the data are stored safely and securely and in full compliance with European Union data protection laws.

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After the completion of the project, all the responsibilities concerning data recovery and secure storage will go to the repository storing the data.

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All data files will be transferred via secure connections and in encrypted and password-protected form.

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

THANKS!

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.