Background: Biomedical research projects deal with data management requirements from multiple sources like funding agencies' guidelines, publisher policies, discipline best practices, and their own users' needs. We describe functional and quality requirements based on many years of experience implementing data management for the CRC 1002 and CRC 1190. A fully equipped data management software should improve documentation of experiments and materials, enable data storage and sharing according to the FAIR Guiding Principles while maximizing usability, information security, as well as software sustainability and reusability. Results: We introduce the modular web portal software menoci for data collection, experiment documentation, data publication, sharing, and preservation in biomedical research projects. Menoci modules are based on the Drupal content management system which enables lightweight deployment and setup, and creates the possibility to combine research data management with a customisable project home page or collaboration platform. Conclusions: Management of research data and digital research artefacts is transforming from individual researcher or groups best practices towards project- or organisation-wide service infrastructures. To enable and support this structural transformation process, a vital ecosystem of open source software tools is needed. Menoci is a contribution to this ecosystem of research data management tools that is specifically designed to support biomedical research projects.
@article{arxiv.2002.06161,
title = {menoci: Lightweight Extensible Web Portal enabling FAIR Data Management for Biomedical Research Projects},
author = {Markus Suhr and Christoph Lehmann and Christian Robert Bauer and Theresa Bender and Cornelius Knopp and Luca Freckmann and Björn Öst Hansen and Christian Henke and Georg Aschenbrandt and Lea Kühlborn and Sophia Rheinländer and Linus Weber and Bartlomiej Marzec and Marcel Hellkamp and Philipp Wieder and Harald Kusch and Ulrich Sax and Sara Yasemin Nussbeck},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.06161},
year = {2021}
}