DMPTool for Data Management Plans

Perry Willett, UC3October 19, 2011

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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.• Provides additional help for researchers at

DMPTool partner institutions (eg., UC)

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Reasons for the DMPTool

• NSF requirements for data management plans beginning Jan 2011– UC received over $600 million from NSF in FY

2010/11• Other agencies following suit: NEH, IMLS• NIH has data sharing requirements

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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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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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DMPTool project

• Partners: CDL, UCLA, UCSD, Smithsonian, UVa, UIUC, DataONE, 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 Univ of Virginia

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Demo

• https://dmp.cdlib.org

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How you can participate

• Shibboleth login (“single sign-on”)• Add links to local resources, help text,

suggested answers, contact information• Blog for local news and events

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Shibboleth login

• Researchers use their campus login• Step 1: work with your IT staff to add DMPTool to

campus single signon service (“identity provider”)• Step 2: work with data “owners” to release information

to DMPTool– Usually both HR for faculty and staff,and Registrar for

students• More information at

https://dmp.cdlib.org/help/dmp_shibboleth

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Add local information

• Help text, Links to resources and services, Suggested answers, Contact information

• Information can be added at various levels for researchers at your university:– All data management plans – All data management from a particular funding agency,

eg. NSF Biological Sciences Directorate– A particular question within a data management planhttps://bitbucket.org/dmptool/main/wiki/Documentation

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DMPTool Blog

• Hosted at UCLA• Highlight news, events and services at your

university related to research and data• Blog posts will appear in the DMPTool via RSS• Blog pages can highlight different

organizations within your university• http://blogs.library.ucla.edu/dmptool

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Project participants• CDL/UC3:

– Trisha Cruse– Perry Willett– Marisa Strong– Tracy Seneca – Scott Fisher– Stephen Abrams– Mark Reyes– Margaret Low

• UCSD:– Brad Westbrook

• UCLA:– Todd Grappone– Gary Thompson– Darrow Cole

• Univ of Illinois:– Michael Grady– Howard Ding– Sarah Shreeves

• Smithsonian Institution:– Günter Waibel

• Univ of Virginia:– Andrew Sallans– Sherry Lake– Carla Lee

• DataONE:– Amber Budden

• Digital Curation Centre:– Martin Donnelly

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Future Development• Press release (soon!)• Postcards• Presentations at conferences:– Digital Library Federation Fall Forum, Nov 1 (Baltimore)– Int’l Digital Curation Conference, Dec 6 (Bristol, UK)

• Additional US funding agencies (NIH, others)• Additional development

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Summary: How you can participate

• Shibboleth login: Make it easy for researchers to login

• Funder Templates: Customize the DMPTool to highlight resources and services at your university

• DMPTool Blog: Write blogposts about news and events related to research data on your campus

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Questions?

• Contact us at uc3@ucop.edu to participate• Important links:– Info on Shibboleth login:https://dmp.cdlib.org/help/dmp_shibboleth– Funder Templates:https://bitbucket.org/dmptool/main/wiki/Documentation– DMPTool Blog: http://blogs.library.ucla.edu/dmptool

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