Exposing DMPs Working Group Can wider exposure of DMPs better connect research data production to preservation? Angus Whyte, Fiona Murphy, Natalie Meyers, Kathryn Unsworth, Quebec 20 September 2017 Exposing DMPs Working Group

And sign up for the group! The main point #1 To improve data management practice DMPs should be shared at appropriate stages in the research lifecycle Help us make the case and identify how to do it in the RDA Exposing DMPs Working Group Check out our page https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/exposing-data-management-plans-wg And sign up for the group!

Motivations Service providers – how to help researchers, librarians innovatively? Guidance providers – how to offer DMP guidance fit for context? Publishers & funders– how can we share innovative practice and join up DMPs and research outputs?

Motivations Service providers – how to help researchers, librarians innovatively? Guidance providers – how to offer DMP guidance fit for context? Publishers & funders– how can we share innovative practice and join up DMPs and research outputs?

Motivations Service providers – how to help researchers, librarians innovatively? Guidance providers – how to offer DMP guidance fit for context? Publishers & funders– how can we share innovative practice and join up DMPs and research outputs?

What is the reality? Little research on impact of DMP mandates Are these common perceptions true? Researchers and funders take an “over the wall” approach – seen as a bureaucratic hurdle Researchers don’t update them much Private conversation between grant applicant, host institution and funder

Funder expectations are changing Updated during project Natural and Environmental Research Council (NERC) UK European Commission Horizon 2020 Joined up Wellcome Trust Shared when funded As open practice (National Endowment Humanities) For public evaluation (European Commission)

Researcher practices are changing (?) RIO Journal – all kinds of research outputs ~ 10% are Data Management Plans DMPtool ~ 160 users have made their DMP public But little survey evidence of how researchers see DMP sharing – as risk and opportunity

Making DMPs “active and actionable” Growing interest among research data service community in the ‘Active DMP’ RDA Active DMP Interest Group Workshops @ IDCC17 etc. RDA DMP Common Standards working group standard terms to describe content in machine-readable formats

DMP Sharing –What benefits to researchers? Public Funder Institution Team/ Peers Visibility Reproducibility Accountability Efficacy Efficiency Quality Needs evidence- like data sharing all over again!

Exposing Plans RDA Working Group Case statement sets out work plan – being finalised so it can begin by next plenary – covering 18 month period Also work with the FORCE11 FAIR DMP Group and other initiatives Use case consultation Drawn from 8 headings in Simms et al IDCC17 workshop report Survey on benefits and risks (DMPonline & DMPtool users) Walkthroughs of examples Use case catalogue Use case actors, roles and goals Scenarios to identify main sequence Identify machine-actionable inputs/ outputs Case studies – exemplifying benefits Reference model Components – systems as actors in use cases Workflows Recommendations and guidelines Implementing FAIR DMP Principles

Exposing Plans RDA Working Group Check out our page https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/exposing-data-management-plans-wg Join the list and give us your input please! Help out with out survey Contribute a case study Thanks for listening