The rise of data-driven scientific investigations has made research data management (RDM) essential for good scientific practice. Implementing RDM is a complex challenge for research communities, infrastructures, and host organizations. Generic RDM guidelines often do not address practical questions, and disciplinary best practices can be overwhelming without proper context. Once guidelines are established, expanding their reach and keeping them up to date is challenging. The RDMkit is an open community-led resource designed as a gateway to reach the wealth of RDM knowledge, tools, training, and resources in life sciences. The RDMkit provides best-practice guidelines on common RDM tasks expected of data stewards and researchers, specific data management challenges and solutions from life science domains, and tool assemblies showcasing holistic solutions to support the research data life cycle. Built on a reusable open infrastructure, the RDMkit allows organizations to create their own guidelines using it as a blueprint.

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Centre for Bioinformatics University of Oslo Oslo Norway

Czech Technical University Prague Thakurova 9 160 00 Prague Czech Republic

Department of Chemistry NOVA School of Science and Technology NOVA University Caparica 2829 516 Lisbon Portugal

Department of Informatics Computational Biology Unit University of Bergen Bergen Norway

ELIXIR Estonia University of Tartu Tartu Estonia

ELIXIR Hub Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton Cambridge CB10 1SD UK

Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies 69118 Heidelberg Germany

INESC ID IST University of Lisbon Lisbon Portugal

Luxembourg Institute of Health 1 A B Rue Thomas Edison 1445 Strassen Luxembourg

Luxembourg National Data Service PNED GIE 4362 Esch sur Alzette Luxembourg

National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Department of Cell and Molecular Biology Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden

Office of Data Science Strategy National Institutes of Health Rockville Pike Bethesda MD 20892 USA

Stichting Health RI Jaarbeursplein 6 3521 AL Utrecht the Netherlands

The Arctic University of Norway Tromsø Norway

The University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL UK

VIB Data Core VIB Technologies 75 9052 Ghent Belgium

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