A demonstration of the DMPTool, which helps researchers create data management plans now required by the Nat'l Science Foundation and other US grant funding agencies. See http://www.cdlib.org/uc3/webinars/20111019/ for recording.

1. DMPTool
for Data Management Plans
Perry Willett, UC3
October 19, 2011
http://dmp.cdlib.org

2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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18. Demo
• https://dmp.cdlib.org
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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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 plan
https://bitbucket.org/dmptool/main/wiki/Documentation
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23. 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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24. Project participants
• CDL/UC3: • UCLA: • Univ of Virginia:
– Trisha Cruse – Todd Grappone – Andrew Sallans
– Perry Willett – Gary Thompson – Sherry Lake
– Marisa Strong – Darrow Cole – Carla Lee
– Tracy Seneca • Univ of Illinois: • DataONE:
– Scott Fisher – Michael Grady – Amber Budden
– Stephen Abrams – Howard Ding
– Mark Reyes – Sarah Shreeves
• Digital Curation
– Margaret Low Centre:
• Smithsonian – Martin Donnelly
• UCSD: Institution:
– Brad Westbrook
– Günter Waibel
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25. 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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26. 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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27. 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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