1. Exposing Data Management Plans WG Update
RDA 13th Plenary
April 2-4 Philadelphia, PA

2. What the Exposing DMPs group is doing:
We are studying how sharing and publishing (aka exposing) data management plans can potentially benefit researchers, funders, institutions, and a variety of service providers and community organisations including repositories, researchers' umbrella institutions, journals, publishers, and providers of tools for writing and maintaining plans.
Angus Whyte of Digital Curation Centre, Fiona Murphy of Murphy Mitchell Consulting Ltd, Kathryn Unsworth of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation(CSIRO), Marie-Christine Jacquemot-Perbal of Institute of Scientific and Technical Information(INIST) and Natalie Meyers of the University of Notre Dame.

3. Who we are:
Chair (s): Angus Whyte, Fiona Murphy, Natalie Meyers, Kathryn Unsworth, Marie-Christine Jacquemot-Perbal
RDA Secretariat Liaison: Lynn Yarmey | RDA TAB Liaison: Francoise Genova
Angus Whyte of Digital Curation Centre, Fiona Murphy of Murphy Mitchell Consulting Ltd, Kathryn Unsworth of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation(CSIRO), Marie-Christine Jacquemot-Perbal of Institute of Scientific and Technical Information(INIST) and Natalie Meyers of the University of Notre Dame.

4. Complementary Aims Related groups with complementary aims:
DMP Common Standards WG Chair (s): Tomasz Miksa, Paul Walk, Peter Neish | Secretariat Liaison: Lynn Yarmey | TAB Liaison: Wenbo Chu
Active Data Management Plans IG Chair (s): David Giaretta, Helen Glaves, Kevin Ashley, Stephanie Simms, Sarah Jones | TAB Liaison: Jane Wyngaard
California Digital Library has received an NSF EAGER AWARD # to support active, machine-actionable data management plans (DMPs).

5. What we’ve been up to:
A needs assessment/survey to gauge user needs and motivations for exposing DMPs as well as perceived risks and undesirable impacts. These survey results from the WG contribute to a better understanding of expectations related to sharing and publishing the content of data management plans.
Piloted at P12, RDA Chairs Mtg then open for responses January 9 through March
Survey Instrument
Data
571 Responses, 409 complete, 42 ~52% complete, 120 ~13% complete

6. STAKEHOLDER RESPONDENTS

7. ROLE - Please indicate your role(s) related to data management plans and research data management (select all that apply)

8. Generally speaking, how do you think DMPs SHOULD be exposed (i. e
Generally speaking, how do you think DMPs SHOULD be exposed (i.e., shared beyond the funder or outside of the immediate team)?

9. RAT_NO - Why do you think DMPs should not be shared?

10. Who do you think should be able to share out or share in DMPs
Who do you think should be able to share out or share in DMPs? (select all that apply)

11. What would be your preferred mechanism/method(s) for publishing DMPs
What would be your preferred mechanism/method(s) for publishing DMPs? (Select all that apply).

12. What do you see as the potential positive impacts from exposing DMPs
What do you see as the potential positive impacts from exposing DMPs? (Select all that apply)

13. NEG_IMPACT - What do you see as the potential negative impacts of exposing DMPs? (Select all that apply)

14. BARRIERS - What conditions and guarantees should be considered when deciding to expose DMPs? (Select all that apply)

15. Why do you think it is important to share DMPs? (select all that apply)

16. Anticipated Outputs:
Reference model including alternative strategies for exposing plans to best serve community interests in meeting FAIR principles, based on shared experience of ‘early adopters’ in test implementations.
Supported by the survey work aimed toward gauging user needs and motivations for exposing DMP, as well as perceived risks and disbenefits.

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