Catalogue of Data Management Tools

Love Data Week 2026

During the week of 9 – 13 February, the international thematic event Love Data Week takes place, held annually in the week around Valentine’s Day. This year’s theme, “Where’s the Data?“, guides us through the journey of research data across all phases of their lifecycle—from creation and storage to long-term preservation. Throughout the week, universities, non-profit organizations, government agencies, and individuals around the world organize events and activities focused on research data management, data sharing, preservation, and reuse.

Catalogue of Data Management Tools

For each phase of the data lifecycle, there are numerous tools that help us manage data – for example, to share, process, analyze, or preserve them over the long term. However, the sheer number of available tools can make it easy to feel overwhelmed. In addition, some of these tools are not widely known, meaning that researchers may not even become aware of them.

On the occasion of Love Data Week, we are publishing a clear and well-structured Data Management Tools Catalogue, which we are developing at the  Open Science Department of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The aim of this catalogue is to help researchers and data stewards better navigate the available tools. The catalogue brings together tools designed for research data management, including those specific to the Czech research environment, and organizes them clearly according to the phases of the data lifecycle. Each tool is accompanied by a brief description, a link to the relevant website, and can be filtered using simple discipline-based filters.

The project is hosted on GitHub Pages and is still under development. Please note that the catalogue is currently optimized primarily for viewing on a standard desktop computer. If it does not display correctly – for example, on a smaller laptop – the layout can be adjusted by changing the zoom level of your browser (Ctrl –). Suggestions, feedback, and tips for additional tools can be shared via the Padlet platform.

In the short video below, we show you how to use the catalogue in practice:

Last updated on February 12, 2026