Research Data Management Costs
In general TU Delft storage and sharing solutions should be sufficient for standard research Data Management needs. You can consider the costs of the following:
Costs of data management might include:
Hardware and infrastructure costs
Costs of hardware for storing and backing up data.
Costs of access to any specialist infrastructure, such as High Performance Computing.
Cloud computing costs.
Software costs
- Purchase of licences for software to support good data management, such as Electronic Lab Notebooks, or project management software.
Personnel cost
Time associated with the preparation of research data for archiving and publication including the relevant documentation.
Cost of hiring a dedicated Data Manager or Data Analyst for the project.
Publishing costs
Data publication, where there is a charge associated with depositing in a data archive.
- 4TU.ResearchData is free for TU Delft researchers up to 1 TB/per year/per researcher.
Publication of papers about datasets or software in dedicated journals.