1. Lifecycle Management of
Environmental Science Data the
DataONE Way: Planning
DataONE User’s Group Meeting
July 16, 2012
9:10 - 10:00
Andrew Sallans
University of Virginia Libraries
Twitter: #dug2012

2. Outline
What is DataONE doing in this phase?
DMPTool involvement
Demonstration
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3. What is DataONE doing for you?
DMPTool (Amber Budden as DataONE liaison)
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4. DMPTool for Data Management Plans
Helps researchers meet requirements of NSF and other
U.S. funding agencies.
Guides researchers through the process of creating a
data management plan.
Is available to everyone.
Points to local resources and support for participating
institutions.
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5. Reasons for the DMPTool
NSF requires data management plans (Jan 2011)
Other agencies following: NEH, IMLS, NIH, NOAA, USGS
Community interest in improving data management
planning practices
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6. Goals of the DMPTool
I. To provide researchers a simple way to create a
Data Management Plan by giving them information
from the funding agency:
• Questions asked by the agency
• Any additional explanation or context provided by the
agency
• Links to the agency website for policies, help, guidance
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7. Goals of the DMPTool
II. To provide researchers with additional information
from their local institution:
• Resources and services to help them manage data
• Help text for specific questions
• Suggested answers to questions that they can simply cut-
and-paste
• News and events related to data management on their
campus
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8. DMPTool project
Partners: CDL, DataONE, Smithsonian, UCLA, UCSD,
UIUC, UVa, Digital Curation Centre (UK)
Started working in January 2011
Developed requirements, divided work among
partners, self-funded
Usability testing at Ecological Society of America
conference and University of Virginia
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13. How to participate
Shibboleth login (“single sign-on”)
Add links to local resources, help text,
suggested answers, contact information
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14. Growth rate since launch in Oct 2011
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
Oct-11 Nov-11 Dec-11 Jan-12 Feb-12 Mar-12 Apr-12 May-12 Jun-12
Oct-11 Nov-11 Dec-11 Jan-12 Feb-12 Mar-12 Apr-12 May-12 Jun-12
Unique Users 180 548 772 1146 1399 1624 1809 2092 2302
Plans 114 398 582 882 1090 1291 1479 1711 1887
Institutions 65 155 206 288 331 381 405 419 452
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15. Uptake since launch in Oct 2011
2500
2250
2000 682
1750
600
1500
2012-Q2
1250
852 2012-Q1
1000 2011-Q4
709
750
500
772 71
250 582 174
206
0
Unique Users Plans Institutions
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16. Plans per template (as of June 2012)
400
Approximate number of plans per template
350 339
300 287 Templates of greatest interest to
the DataONE community in red
250
197
200
159
150 133 133 124
101
100
71 65 60
46 37 36
50 34
17 15 6
0
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17. New additions
In process
• Looking for new DMP requirements
• Adding Functionality for editors
• Addressing accessibility issues
• Articulating security & privacy policies
• Multi-author access to DMPs (sharing)
• Tighter community integration and educational components
In discussion
• Integration with other systems and initiatives
• Routing of DMPs to support personnel
• Analytics
• Added educational materials at point of need
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18. Governance and Sustainability
Shift from self-funded initiative to more
sustainable model
Researching governance models that allows:
• Transparency
• Nimbleness
• Broad community input
Meeting next week to work on this
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19. Summer 2012 Intern
Intern: Rachel Mandell (UCLA, MLIS)
Mentors: Andrew Sallans (UVA), Carly Strasser
(CDL), Sherry Lake (UVA)
Focus on marketing and content development
for DataONE community
Follow progress and offer feedback:
http://notebooks.dataone.org/dmptool
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20. Questions?
Contact Andrew Sallans at als9q@virginia.edu or
uc3@ucop.edu to participate
http://dmptool.org
http://notebooks.dataone.org/dmptool
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