The association is dedicated to promoting the management of research data and research processes in general and particularly the open and free software of the same name, RDMO. In addition to providing fundamental support for the cooperative further development of RDMO, the association will professionalise release management and support the open-source community with an office. The association is based in Darmstadt and the office is located at the ULB Darmstadt. The Research Data Management Organiser supports research projects in the planning, implementation and administration of all research data management tasks further information.

The creation of RDMO was funded by the DFG in two project phases from 2015 to 2020 and subsequently transferred to a community-supported working group. This working group is now being transformed into the permanent structures of an association to provide a framework for the open-source community.

The following were elected for the founding board: Gerald Jagusch (president, TU Darmstadt), Martin Spenger (vice president, LMU München), Janine Straka (vice president, University of Potsdam), Johannes Frenzel (treasurer, Ruhr-University Bochum) und Jürgen Rohrwild (secretary, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg).

The RDMO e.V. is looking forward to welcoming other RDMO-using institutions as members in order to strengthen the association and to represent the RDMO community as comprehensively as possible. The admission of new members is expected to be possible from summer 2025. Only institutions with legal capacity can become members. If you have any questions, please contact the association by email.

An update on the status of the association´s founding and the next steps will be provided at the next virtual RDMO community meeting on 25 March 2025.

Founding members:

• Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• Technische Universität Braunschweig
• Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Dortmund University
• Universität Duisburg-Essen
• Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
• Kassel University Library
• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• University of Potsdam
• University of Rostock
• University of Tübingen
• Hochschule Fulda
• University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen
• University of Applied SciencesPotsdam
• Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education (DIPF)
• Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Pflant Research (IPK)
• Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
• Max-Weber-Stiftung
• ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences

ULB Darmstadt has been using RDMO since 2017 and is one of the key players in this Germany wide community. Based on RDMO, we operate over 20 interconnected data management planning portals for numerous research institutes, colleges and universities, including in Hesse and for Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI). At TU Darmstadt, this service is known as TUdmo. Since 2024, RDMO has also formed the technical basis for the NFDI basic service DMP4NFDI.