DMPonline: recent updates and new functionality

Sarah Jonessarah.jones@glasgow.ac.uk

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

Institutional sign-on advice

More intuitive workflow and improved guidance

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

Admin interface

Plan filtering

Allows users with large numbers of plan to organise and search them more effectively

https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/projects

Formatting PDF export

Courtesy of the University of Leeds

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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: DMPonline@dcc.ac.uk