In many professional gatherings with research data management communities, we identified a need to improve the tracking of project compliance with grant agreements in Open Science and FAIR data management. To address this need, we have conceptualized ProTIS, which will facilitate tracking different components of open science like Data Management Plans, privacy compliance, and data publications.

ProTIS is a federated platform where existing and new project tracking information comes together to give insight on how and where the commitment to Open Science can be improved. ProTIS provides several functions; it automates the creation of projects, uses templates for funders and research groups to create timelines for projects including deliverable due dates, and adds documentation to the projects so that researchers and support staff can consult necessary project information and provide their assistance accordingly.

ProTIS is being built upon open-source frameworks and solutions, like OpenProject, PostgreSQL, and Flask to keep the entire software stack free, open, and extensible by the community. By employing OpenProject, project management software, ProTIS has a robust foundation that can extend its capability past research data management.

ProTIS is being openly developed on its GitHub, and we are looking for testers, contributors, and reviewers to help us develop the software, and create a solution which serves the research data management community in their project tracking needs. On the GitHub repository there will be instructions for opening issues and contributing to the development, deploying the software package yourself, and timelines for feature development.