DMLawTool – A Guiding Tool for Researchers to Address Legal Aspects in Data Management

Résumé

DMLawTool is a web-based tool that guides researchers working mainly in the fields of humanities and social sciences through the most relevant legal issues related to data management. It has the form of decision tree that provides different solution approaches on how to correctly deal with research data during the whole data lifecycle. The released version of the DMLawTool will be available openly and free of charge as an open-source software on the CCdigitallaw.ch platform (www.ccdigitallaw.ch). This paper illustrates the different development steps of the tool, introduces its structure and main functionalities and provides a reflection on the faced challenges.