plotID is a program connected to Research Data Management (RDM). It has two main functionalities:

1. Tag your plot with an identifier.
2. Export the resulting file to a specified directory along the corresponding research data, the plot is based on. Additionally, the script that created the plot will also be copied to the directory.

PlotID was developed by Martin Hock, Hannes Mayr, Manuela Richter and Jan Lemmer.

The authors would like to thank the Federal Government and the Heads of Government of the Länder, as well as the Joint Science Conference (GWK), for their funding and support within the framework of the NFDI4Ing consortium. Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) – project number 442146713.