DMPonline: recent updates and new functionality
Sarah [email protected]
Twitter: @sjDCC
DCC curation webinars, 27th May 2015, www.dcc.ac.uk/training/webinars
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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
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
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 optionsInitial DMP Full DMP
Draft Reviewed Revised Complete Submitted
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
Institutional enhancements
• Institutional branding
• Customisable administrative data
• Trigger alerts for event monitoring
• Create a new template based on an existing one
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
Active maintenance
• Routine bug fixes
• Improving documentation
• Communication with user group
• Supporting the user/developer community
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
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Comment feature• Allows notes to be left to aid collaboration
• Can view / edit / remove comments
• Comments added per question
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
Plan filtering
Allows users with large numbers of plan to organise and search them more effectively
https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/projects
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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
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
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
Thanks for listening
DMP guidance, tools and resources:www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/data-management-plans
Follow us on @digitalcuration and #DMPonline
Email: [email protected]
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