DMPonlinehttp://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk

Workshop on Writing Data Management Plans

OpenAIRE-COAR 2014

Patrick McCann – Digital Curation Centre

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Introduction – the DCC

• The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) provides expert advice and practical help to anyone in UK higher education and research wanting to store, manage, protect and share digital research data.

• Funded by Jisc.• Staff are based at the Universities of

Edinburgh, Glasgow and Bath.• http://www.dcc.ac.uk

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Introduction - DMPonline

• http://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk• DMPonline has been developed by the

DCC to help researchers meet– Funders’ requirements for DMPs– Any DMP expectations that their institution or

others may have

• Users can collaborate on plans based on funder templates which they can then export in a range of formats.

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History

• 2007 – Liz Lyon recommends DMPs in the Dealing with Data report.

• 2009 – First DCC Data Management Checklist created following consultation.

• April 2010 – DMPonline launched at Jisc conference.

• March 2011 – DMPonline 2 is launched with additional functionality.

• April 2012 – DMPonline 3 includes revisions drawing on DMPTool and the Jisc MRD programme.

• Oct-Dec 2012 – Major review saw lots of positive feedback but some major issues.

• 2013 – Completely redeveloped from ground up – DMPonline 4 launched in December.

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“My Plans”

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Signing in

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Plan Creation

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Plan Creation

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Plan Creation

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Questions

Template

Funder questions

Institution questions

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Questions

Template

DCC questions

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Guidance

Guidance for

question

Guidance for question by template

creator

Themed guidance by

institution

Themed guidance by other source

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Plan details

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Editing plan details

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Completing Plan

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Completing Plan

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Completing Plan

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Collaboration

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Collaboration

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Collaboration

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Export

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Coming soon…

• Facilities allowing institutions to…– Create templates– Add questions to funder templates– Create guidance for themes or specific questions– Create suggested/example answers for questions

…Are currently being tested at http://dmponline-test.dcc.ac.uk

• Expected to launch as version 4.1 in the coming weeks

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Coming soon…

• Version 4.2 is expected to include big improvements to exporting functionality– New formats (CSV, Microsoft Word)– PDFs formatted in line with funder

specifications– User control over PDF formatting– Greater user control over included elements

• Roadmap to be published imminently – any input is welcome

Thank-you!

DMPonline• http://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk• http://www.dcc.ac.uk/news/dmponline• dmponline@dcc.ac.uk

DMPonline Development• http://github.com/DigitalCurationCentre/DMPonline_v4• http://dmponline-test.dcc.ac.uk

Digital Curation Centre• http://www.dcc.ac.uk• @digitalcuration