The document provides an overview of the DMPonline tool for creating data management plans and its future developments. It summarizes the tool's main features, provides a live demo, and outlines the roadmap for improvements in 2015, including enhancements to user experience, support for different phases of a project lifecycle, system integration capabilities, and localization. The presentation concludes by inviting questions and providing links for further information.
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DMPonline roadmap 2015
1. DMPonline: demo and roadmap
Sarah Jones
sarah.jones@glasgow.ac.uk
Marta Ribeiro
marta.ribeiro@ed.ac.uk
2. Programme
• DMPonline features
• Live demo of DMPonline
• Roadmap of future developments to DMPonline
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3. A web-based tool to help researchers write data
management plans
A short history
• Launched in April 2010 at the Jisc conference
• Released v.2 in March 2011 with extra functionality
• Released v.3 in April 2012 with revisions in light of the
DMPTool and work from the Jisc MRD programme
• Released v.4 in December 2013, incorporating major
changes from evaluation
What is DMPonline?
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4. Main features in DMPonline
• Templates for different requirements (funder or institution)
• Tailored guidance (funder, institutional, discipline-specific etc)
• Ability to provide examples and suggested answers
• Supports multiple phases (e.g. pre- / during / post-project)
• Granular read / write / share permissions
• Customised exports to a variety of formats
• Shibboleth authentication
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7. End-user improvements
• 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
• Adding a comments feature
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8. 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
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9. 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
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10. Institutional enhancements
• Institutional branding
• Customisable administrative data
• Trigger alerts for event monitoring
• Create a new template based on an existing one
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11. Locale-aware support
• Customised appearance & language based on IP address
• Presentation of different (smaller set of) options based on
location / organisation
• Auto-select institution when registering via Shibboleth
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12. DMPonline 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
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13. Thanks – any questions?
DMP guidance, tools and resources:
www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/data-management-plans
Follow us on twitter:
@digitalcuration and #DMPonline
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Editor's Notes
DMPonline has evolved greatly over the past few years, initially in terms of adding extra features and functionality requested by users, but subsequently in more fundamental ways in light of how the landscape is changing.
When we started, only a handful of research funders asked for DMPs. The requirements have since increased and these are regularly updated. Universities often ask for DMPs now too, and they want to provide tailored guidance, specific to their local context. Discipline-specific guidance is also emerging.
The tool is evolving to allow us to combine the different funder, institutional and disciplinary contexts to present users with the relevant questions and guidance based on what position they’re in (i.e. if they’re applying for funding but their university also asks for a DMP and offers local guidance, we’ll pull all these things together and present them to the user)