Sarah Jones from the DCC talks about the developments and the next MVP of DMPOnline. Research Data Network, York

1. DMPonline:
what’s news & what’s coming
Sarah Jones
Digital Curation Centre
sarah.jones@glasgow.ac.uk
Twitter: @sjDCC
Jisc Research Data Network, York, 28 June 2017 #jiscrdm
@DMPonline
#DMPonline

2. A single platform for all things DMP
Agreed to converge on a single codebase, based on
DMPonline with additional features from DMPTool
Bring together features and strengths of each tool
Co-manage, co-develop and issue joint roadmap
DMPRoadmap: https://github.com/DMPRoadmap

3. Powered by DMPRoadmap
Powered by
https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk

4. Improved performance
• New data model
• Refactored code
• Much quicker response

5. Foreign language options
• Switching language in interface
• Can set preference in user profile
and at organisation level
• Pootle portal to let community
add new translations
https://github.com/DMPRoadmap/roadmap/wiki/Translations

6. ORCID authentication

7. Revised create plan wizard
• Easier to point to
institutional guidance
• Accessible dropdown
boxes
• Guidance selected
afterwards, during
plan creation

8. Guidance selections

9. Improved admin controls
• Assign privileges to others in your org (user tab)
• Upload your own logo & abbreviation (org tab)
• Easier template publishing and versioning
• Versioning on customisation of funder templates

10. User guides on wiki
Just started these. Tell us what else is most needed!
• Create a plan
• Make guidance selections
• Transfer a customisation
• Edit organisation details
• Assign privileges (grant admin rights)
https://github.com/DMPRoadmap/roadmap/wiki/User-guide

11. What else is coming in MVP (August)
• Basic plan review functionality
• Plan visibility (private, institutional, public)
• Email notifications settings
• Flag “test” plans
• Statistics dashboard
• Institutional access to plans
• Creating plans and templates from existing ones
• Template export
https://github.com/DMPRoadmap/roadmap/wiki/Development-roadmap

12. 47 participants from 16 countries
• Funders
• Developers
• Librarians
• Service providers
• Researchers
Understand research workflows
Develop use cases for maDMPs
Set priorities for future work
www.dcc.ac.uk/events/workshops/
postcard-future-tools-and-services-
perfect-dmp-world
Utopia workshop

13. White paper for comments
Share your needs
Help us iterate
Provide your time, ideas,
resources to help pilot work
http://riojournal.com/articles.
php?id=13086

14. Machine actionable DMP priorities
• Common standards and protocols
• Utilising PIDs for automatic reporting etc
• Capacity planning (institutional & data centre)
• Increasing data discovery & reuse
• Supporting evaluation & monitoring
• Share/publish/deposit DMPs
Improve the experience for all by exchanging information across
research systems and embedding DMPs in existing workflows

15. Define a minimum data model
DMPonline themes
Mappings
Common format?
New RDA Working
Group on this topic
From Flickr by Steve Johnson, CC BY 2.0

16. Registries to give structured response
http://rd-alliance.github.io/metadata-directory

17. Service join-up & capacity planning
2-way info exchange between DMP & repository
• Specify place of deposit
• Notify repository
• Share data volume & requirements
• Facilitate deposit by prepopulating forms
• Update DMP with dataset metadata & PID
DMP
Repository

18. Mapping the institutional landscape
• What systems are in place?
• Where are these held? e.g. library, research office, ethics…
• What information is gathered and could be exchanged?
• What does the institution want / need
– event tracking e.g. award made
– automated messaging
– allocation of resources
– harvesting info for reporting
– enable data deposit…
https://zenodo.org/record/804484#.WU9yJevyuUk

19. Utilising PIDs
Potential to use EC grant IDs in plans e.g.
• Harvest grant IDs from OpenAIRE API
• Provide look up when entering project details
• Prepopulate metadata fields
• Enable join up of DMP with other outputs

20. Next steps: maDMP pilots
From Flickr by Allen, CC BY 2.0