Supporting DMPs: lessons from the UK and elsewhere Sarah Jones Digital Curation Centre, Glasgow DMPonline workshop, 9-10 November 2015, Copenhagen
Basic guidance and support Most university policies include a requirement for DMPs so you need to explain what to cover in plans via: Templates listing themes/questions to cover Custom guidance by uni or discipline Example answers or boilerplate text Links to local contacts and support A library of successful DMPs to reuse
Example DMP templates DCC Checklist (generic template) DMP/DMP_Checklist_2013.pdf DMP/DMP_Checklist_2013.pdf Bath postgraduate template DataTrain template datatrain/documents.html datatrain/documents.html 20 questions for RDM 03/07/twenty-questions-for-research-data-management 03/07/twenty-questions-for-research-data-management MRC template sharing/data-management-plans sharing/data-management-plans
Example templates from DMPonline POSTGRADUATE DMP Shorter – six sections Less formal wording e.g. ‘looking after your data’ Straightforward guidance STANDARD DMP 2 phases – lite and full DMP 6-8 sections overall Questions more formal / factual Guidance longer and more directive University of East London has two templates in DMPonline
Custom guidance Strathclyde University has guidelines for the whole institution and 3 departments: School of Government and Public Policy Social Work and Social Policy Maths and Statistics
Example answers St Andrew’s University has added example answers for every question in the EPSRC template
Suggested answers The University of Glasgow has template answer for the policy question in the MRC template. The table is prepopulated with links to all the University policies.
Example plans 108 DMPs from the National Endowment for the Humanities (USA) grant-applications now-available 20+ scientific DMPs submitted to the NSF (USA) provided by UCSD samples.html 2 Rural Economy & Land Use (RELU) programme examples (UK) Further examples:
More in-depth support Online tools Training courses Reviewing plans Consultancy services
A range of DMP support services For example, Stanford University offers: Information on funding agency requirements Guidance and best practice on writing a plan An online tool (DMPTool) Sample agency-specific plans An FAQ and workshops A DMP review service services/data-management-plans
University of Bristol DMP services
Integrating DMPs into workflows www2.le.ac.uk/offices/itservices/about/news/old-news/2010/July/lucre Example of embedding flags into the grant costings system at the University of Leicester
CPUT data management tool Collaboration with Technical University of Munich Developing tool that encompasses data management planning (using DMPonline code) and incorporates into institutional RDM workflows Contact Zanele Mathe for more information Webinar slides: audiocompressed2?ref= ation-webinars/videos-and-slides
DMPs to define / allocate storage The University of Manchester requires an outline DMP prior to a grant application This asks questions about the storage requirements to plan activity / resourcing and allocate space The outline DMP generates an RDM Plan Reference Number to include in the Research Application form. Researchers can’t proceed without this. services/research-data-management/data-management-planning-tool
Reviewing DMPs Useful guidelines ESRC guidance for peer-reviewers Plan-Guidance-for-peer-reviewers_tcm pdf Plan-Guidance-for-peer-reviewers_tcm pdf Medical Research Council guidelines /data- management-plans-guidance-for-reviewers /data- management-plans-guidance-for-reviewers Johns Hopkins grant reviewers sheet reviewers-guide reviewers-guide How to assess DMPs forthcoming guide
University of Helsinki example Consulting, supporting and networking with researchers & all other interest groups Slide content courtesy of Mari Elisa Kuusniemi (MEK), University of Helsinki Library
DIY training kit for librarians - MANTRA Created by the data library at Edinburgh University Builds on the MANTRA online training for RDM Equips and empowers librarians to training themselves in groups to address RDM and provide support
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