Presentation given on a DCC webinar in May 2015. The talk outlines what's in the roadmap and profiles recent additions.

1. DMPonline: recent updates
and new functionality
Sarah Jones
sarah.jones@glasgow.ac.uk
Twitter: @sjDCC
DCC curation webinars, 27th May 2015, www.dcc.ac.uk/training/webinars

2. DMPONLINE ROADMAP
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3. DMPonline roadmap
• Six areas to cover in a balanced way across releases:
– Usability improvements
– Lifecycle and review
– API for systems integration
– Institutional enhancements
– Locale-aware support
– Maintenance

4. Usability improvements
• Add a comments feature
• Rethink layout / presentation of guidance
• Display / hide options for user to focus effort
• Give text boxes primacy of place
• Allow multiple suggested answers
• Revisit the ‘create plan’ wizard

5. Lifecycle and review
• Indicate different phases and versions of a plan
• Flexible support for different institutional processes
• When to provide institutional access to plans
• Add review options
Initial DMP Full DMP
Draft  Reviewed  Revised 
Complete  Submitted

6. API for systems integration
• Determine the appropriate level of API for the community
• Enable institutions to generate stats and mine content
• Integrate with other university systems
• Harvest core metadata from DMPonline
• Export DMPs to collate a library of plans

7. Institutional enhancements
• Institutional branding
• Customisable administrative data
• Trigger alerts for event monitoring
• Create a new template based on an existing one

8. Locale-aware support
• Customised appearance and language based users’ context
• Presentation of different (smaller set of) organisations and
funders based on location
• Custom URLs to specific locale-aware content

9. Active maintenance
• Routine bug fixes
• Improving documentation
• Communication with user group
• Supporting the user/developer community

10. Release schedule and process
• Bi-monthly release schedule
• Share more detailed release plan with user
group for comment in advance
• Issue release with delivery note
https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/roadmap

11. NEW RELEASES
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12. Comment feature
• Allows notes to be left to aid collaboration
• Can view / edit / remove comments
• Comments added per question

13. Institutional sign-on advice
More intuitive workflow and improved guidance

14. Internationalisation
Proposals for how to handle national and/or
domain-specific version, considering:
– The range of features to be configured for any locale
– The mechanism by which users can select their
required locale
– The technical platforms that will be used to develop
localisation support within the DMPonline code base
https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/files/DMPonline-v4-LocaleSupport.pdf

15. Admin interface

16. Plan filtering
Allows users with large numbers of plan to organise
and search them more effectively
https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/projects

17. Formatting PDF export
Courtesy of the University of Leeds

18. GET INVOLVED
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19. User group
• Aims to make it easier for the community to feed in ideas and
direct the development of DMPonline
• We’ll post plans for consultation and periodically hold webinars
or face-to-face meetings to gather input on specific aspects of
implementation
• Hope to get participants covering all roles e.g. researchers, RDM
co-ordinators, administrators, developers, funders...
• Subscribe to the user group listserv at:
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/DMPONLINE-USER-GROUP

20. Collaborate / contribute to code
• Help us to develop DMPonline in new and
exciting ways
• Code is under a GNU-GPL licence – if you
extend it please share under same conditions
• Submit pull requests to DCC – guidance for
developers coming in next release

21. Tell us about your work
• Please share feedback from researchers
• Any lessons on customising tool
• Tips on introducing / supporting DMPs
• Local user guides e.g. from Humboldt uni
• Guest blog posts e.g. from SSI

22. Thanks for listening
DMP guidance, tools and resources:
www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/data-management-plans
Follow us on @digitalcuration and #DMPonline
Email: DMPonline@dcc.ac.uk