DMPTool for Data Management Plans Perry Willett, CDL Todd Grappone, UCLA Sherry Lake, UVa Sarah Shreeves, UIUC Günter Waibel, Smithsonian Nov 1, 2011

DMPTool Introductions Discuss background, purpose Display some functionality Demo Explain how you can participate Questions/Discussion Break Discussion of institutional participation General discussion Nov 1, 2011

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 Nov 1, 2011

Reasons for the DMPTool NSF requirements for data management plans beginning Jan 2011 – For instance, University of California researchers received over $600 million from NSF in FY 2010/11 Other agencies following suit: NEH, IMLS NIH has data sharing requirements Nov 1, 2011

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 Nov 1, 2011

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 Nov 1, 2011

DMPTool project Partners: CDL, DataONE, Smithsonian, UCLA, UCSD, UIUC, UVa, Digital Curation Centre (UK) – Great team! 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 Nov 1, 2011

Demo Nov 1, 2011

How you can participate Advertise Shibboleth login (“single sign-on”) Add links to local resources, help text, suggested answers, contact information Blog for local news and events Nov 1, 2011

Shibboleth login Researchers use their campus login Step 1: add DMPTool to campus single signon service (Shibboleth/InCommon) 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 Nov 1, 2011

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 Nov 1, 2011

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 Nov 1, 2011

Project participants CDL/UC3 : – Trisha Cruse – Perry Willett – Marisa Strong – Tracy Seneca – Scott Fisher – Stephen Abrams – Mark Reyes – Margaret Low DataONE: – Amber Budden Smithsonian Institution: – Günter Waibel UCLA: – Todd Grappone – Gary Thompson – Darrow Cole UCSD: – Brad Westbrook Univ of Illinois: – Michael Grady – Howard Ding – Sarah Shreeves Univ of Virginia: – Andrew Sallans – Sherry Lake – Carla Lee Digital Curation Centre: – Martin Donnelly Nov 1, 2011

Future Development Communication – Press release (today!) – Postcards Presentations at conferences: – Digital Library Federation Fall Forum, Nov 1 (that’s now) – Int’l Digital Curation Conference, Dec 6 (Bristol, UK) – CNI Fall Membership meeting Dec (Arlington VA) Additional US funding agencies (NIH, others) Additional development Nov 1, 2011

Summary: How you can participate Communication 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 Development, resources Nov 1, 2011

Questions? Contact us at to Important links: – Info on Shibboleth login: – Funder Templates: – DMPTool Blog: Nov 1, 2011