1. Data Management Plans Session 3.2
RDMRose: Research Data Management for LIS
Session 3 The Digital Curation Lifecycle
Session 3.2 Data management plans
Data Management Plans
Session 3.2
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2. Learning outcomes At the end of this session you will be able to:
Explain the concept and content of Digital Management Plans
Reflect on how DMPs relate to your role
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3. Session overview Why plan? When to plan? What to plan? Examples
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4. Why plan?
Because you (and others) might want to know where you’re going
Because they make you: funders, mandates and requirements
Because it saves money in the long run
Because it leads to better quality research and enables high quality curation and reuse
(Donnelly, 2012)
You can find and understand your data when you need to use it
There is continuity if project staff leave or new researchers join
You can avoid unnecessary duplication e.g. re-collecting or re-working data
The data underlying publications are maintained, allowing for validation of results
Data sharing leads to more collaboration and advances research
Your research is more visible and has greater impact
Other researchers can cite your data so you gain credit
(Jones, 2011)
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5. When to plan? DCC recommends three versions:
Minimal plan at the conceptualisation or grant application stage
Core plan once the funding is in place, covering issues up to the point of long-term management and preservation
Full plan that adds issues of longer-term data management
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6. What to plan? DCC checklist: Introduction and context
Data types, formats, standards and capture methods
Ethics and intellectual property
Access, data sharing and reuse
Short-term storage and data management
Deposit and long-term preservation
Resourcing
Adherence and review
Statement of agreement
Annexes
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7. DMP Online
The DCC has used this checklist to create an online tool, DMP Online,
It presents a list of questions based on:
Research funder
Phase of the research project, typically Application and Funded (cf. minimal versus core and full data management plans)
An overview of funders’ requirements is maintained by the DCC at
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8. Activity 3.2.1 Examining a DMP checklist
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9. Activity 3.2.1 Examining a DMP checklist
You have been called in by a researcher for a meeting about a DMP. Go through DCC’s Data Management Plan checklist (Donnelly & Jones, 2011, The DCC are producing a shorter version of this checklist, but it is not yet available.
What are the five things they are going to have most difficulty with? Explain why you chose each item.
For each of these five things, who or what could you point them at for a reliable answer?
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10. Activity 3.2.2 Examining examples of DMPs
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11. Activity 3.2.2 Examining examples of DMPs
Read a few examples of DMPs:
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12. Activity 3.2.2 Examining examples of DMPs
Which parts did you not understand?
Are these examples of minimal, core or full DMPs?
Could/Should the Library provide support on these? If yes: how? If not: why not?
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13. References
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14. References
DCC (n.d.). DMPonline. The DCC Data Management Planning Tool. Retrieved from
Donnelly, M. (2012). Data management plans and planning. In G. Pryor (Ed.). Managing Research Data (pp ). London: Facet.
Donnelly, M., & Jones, S. (2011). Checklist for a Data Management Plan (Version 3.0). Edinburgh: Digital Curation Centre. Retrieved from
Jones, S. (2011). How to Develop a Data Management and Sharing Plan. DCC How-to Guides. Edinburgh: Digital Curation Centre,
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