The overall goal of ELIXIR-CONVERGE’s WP5 was, based on the analysis of a set of very diverse use cases, to contribute to the development of a set of resources supporting the development and implementation of Data Management Plans (DMPs) in national and transnational projects. Six use cases were considered to co-develop and test a method to address domain specific data management planning associated to a set of resources in collaboration with WP1, WP2 and WP3. In this context, another objective of WP5 was to develop, implement and refine key performance indicators (KPIs) in order to monitor the demonstrator projects’ implementation of data management plans and possibly assess their adoption by the relevant community.

WP5 developed two sets KPIs in collaboration with WP4, in charge of developing KPIs across the entire ELIXIR-CONVERGE project and for assessing the impact of the project :

• a first set aiming at monitoring the development of guidance, resources for the development of DMP and for training in the context of the use cases

• a second set aiming at addressing the adoption of these resources by relevant communities of users as a way to assess the impact of the work achieved

In parallel, in order to ensure long term maintenance/update of the developed resources and to increase their impact, WP5 started to engage with ELIXIR communities that could be natural owners of these resources.

The KPI developed and collected by WP5 during the ELIXIR-CONVERGE project were useful to follow the partner’s progress in the development and test of a sort of starter kit for domain specific data management support. Success stories could be collected showing adoption by communities and new projects and were mapped on ELIXIR’s categories of impacts showing already “hits” on several of these.