Data Management Plan (DMP) for OpeRaNew Project

This document describes the data management life cycle for the data to be collected, processed and/or generated within the OpeRaNew project. Carefully managing research data is an essential part of good research practice and starts with adequate planning. According to the Open Research Data Pilot open access to research data that is needed to validate the results presented in scientific publications has to be guaranteed. Moreover, open access to scientific peer-reviewed publications is obligatory in the Horizon 2020 programme.

The purpose of this document is to help to make the research data relating to OpeRaNew findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR; see below). Therefore, this document describes the data management life cycle for the data to be collected, processed and/or generated by the OpeRaNew project. It specifies how data will be handled both during and after the research project and reflects on data collection, data storage, data security and data retrieval.

The Data Management Plan presented herein has been prepared by taking into account the template of the Version 3.0 of the “Guidelines on FAIR Data Management in Horizon 2020” and the "Template Horizon 2020 Data Management Plan" v1.0 - 13.10.2026 https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/other/gm/reporting/h2020-tploa-data-mgt-plan-annotated_en.pdf .

The OpeRaNew Data Management Plan (DMP) is a living document that will be edited and updated over the course of the project whenever significant changes arise. This document is the initial version of the DMP that was prepared in project-month 7 (January 2022). The Marie Curie Fellow participates in the "Pilot on Open Research Data in Horizon2020" (see "Proposal," p. 15).

The substantial bibliography devoted to the work of Frances Burney (1757-1840) has confirmed her stature as an author, but it has left the dramatic works that she wrote during her years at the Court of George III almost untouched. The longdelayed publication of these plays has prevented critics from addressing them. For the few scholars who have dealt with them, these texts remain devoid of dramatic qualities. I posit that this quartet of tragedies prompts our critical thinking in terms of such present-day practices and policies as gender relations, body politics, agency: the plays raise many provocative questions, and our current complex juncture seems an especially apt moment to grant them a long-overdue audience as well as a stage. Burney’s speaking bodies— particularly the female ones—unmask and debunk the fraught relationship of the individual with social and state apparatuses, social forces and techniques of disciplining, whose coercions become dangerously naturalised. OpeRaNew aims to restore to Burney’s small dramatic corpus the cultural depth that has been lost over time. By using digital methods alongside literary analysis, the project constructs an expanding multimedia ecology for Burney’s plays—a capacious mediascape that aspires to reproduce, through contemporary tools and channels of communication, the Romantic theatre experience. The action’s core agenda—whose dynamic conversations are evoked by the verb ‘to open’ in the project title—advocates the engagement with an interested public beyond scholarly communities.

The project not only sheds light on the overlooked dramatic works of a highly versatile Romantic woman author, but it shows the perspicacity and research potential of positioning— precisely at a time of enormous paradigmatic shifts in research communication and dissemination—some long-neglected playtexts, relegated to critical obscurity for over two centuries, within an expansive mediascape capable of placing them, finally, in the limelight.

Francesca Saggini. (2022). DMP for OpeRaNew Project. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6488297