This deliverable describes the data management life cycle for the data to be collected processed and generated during the VitiGEOSS project. The purpose is to establish how the data will be created, stored and backed-up, who owns it and who is responsible for the different data and which data will be preserved and shared. It will cover, the handling of research data during and after the project, what data will be collected, processed, or generated, what methodology and standards will be applied, whether data will be shared/made open and how and how data will be curated and preserved. The Data Management Plan will be used as a standard data guideline for the project consortium to ensure interoperability and sharing for public data generated by the project. Each project partner should respect the policies set out in the resulting Data Management Plan. Datasets have to be created, managed and stored appropriately and in line with European Commission and local legislation. Dataset validation and registration of metadata and backing up data for sharing through repositories is the responsibility of the partner that generates the data. The datasets in the repository project will be preserved in line with the European Commission Data Deposit Policy

The VitiGEOSS project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 869565