By providing these five levels of support, Jarves facilitates the generation of FAIR-by-default data, ensuring the compliance of RDM policies and enriching FAIRness by filling gaps in RDM by showing possible solutions. Researchers no longer have to research on the how and what of RDM but can instead focus on their actual research in which Jarves accompanies them.

Guided RDM Process: Researchers should be supported not hindered by RDM. By resembling the research process, the RDM process of Jarves aims to adapt naturally into everyday research. Hence, the barrier of applying RDM is lowered.

Management of Policies: Still, RDM is dependent on many different factors such as demands by funding organizations or universities. These often have to be researched by researchers themselves, compared to one another and, most importantly, be understood. The last part is sometimes the most complex one, as policies are formulated as vague guidelines. Jarves takes care of this problem, gathering policies, translating them and providing researchers with an overview of their specific policies applying to their current project. Additionally, scientific supporting personnel has access to the policies stored in Jarves, allowing for creation and curation of policies by the community.

Decision Support: Depending on the applicable policies, Jarves takes the supporting of researchers one step further, recommending solutions for specific RDM-problems. This tailors the RDM process even more towards individual needs. Additionally, one glance is enough to understand, which tool should be used and why.

Trainings on Demand: One more challenge researchers are facing is the lack of knowledge about RDM, causing uncertainty, frustration or even fears. Jarves addresses this issue by providing trainings at the very point of need. There is no need to search for the exact training needed for a specific situation, as Jarves analyses the current state of the project and provides trainings for it. Many of thesr trainings are kindly provided by the NFDI4Ing Education Plattform!

Partial Automation: Synchronisation between different RDM-tools can be tedious. Entering the same information multiple times, does only mean additional effort and no benefit. Hence, Jarves creates projects in the other tools researchers have chosen for their research. While doing so, the functionality of other tools is not undermined. Jarves rather creates a hub for data exchange, reading and processing the information that was inserted into e.g. a DMP tool to enhance and checking the RDM for a project, pointing out possible improvements.

Please note: Jarves is still in an early stage of development. Hence, not all functionalities are implemented yet.