Research data management is a general term covering how you organize, structure, store, and care for the information used or generated during a research project. It includes:
- Planning how your data will be looked after – many funders now require data plans as part of applications
- How you deal with information on a day-to-day basis over the lifetime of a project
- What happens to data in the longer term – what you do with it after the project concludes
Source: "What is RDM?" by the University of Oxford.