Help / Guide / Documentation for RDMO Users

There are three different roles within RDMO: User, Manager and Admins.
As a user you have the option:

• Create DMPs and work on them collaboratively
• customize the output using the views
• central administration of information for research data management
• continuous updateability and versioning of information in the course of a project
• Freeze the status of information for projects at certain points in time using snapshots
• Overview of different projects

First Aid

The english documentation is available on rdmo.readthedocs.io.

• Quickstart Guide (pdf document)
• FAQs

You can find views of DMP specifications, e.g. on:

• forschungsdaten.info under “Funder Guidelines”
• forschungsdaten.org under “Förderorganisationen”

Overview of all questions of the complete RDMO catalog as PDF:

• question overview

The XML file of the generic questionnaire can be found here:

• GitHub/rdmo-catalog. All questionnaires are available with a CC0 license.

A searchable overview of all RDMO objects can be found here:

• rdmo-terms shows all objects (questions, attributes, options, views …) that are used in curated RDMO questionnaires. After selecting the category (e.g. domain, question, etc.) you can limit the results using the search field.

Videos

Please note that the following videos are available in German language only.

Was ist RDMO? (Video-Download)

Wie beantworte ich einen Fragenkatalog? (Video-Download)

Was kann man mit RDMO machen? (Video-Download)