Data Management Plans Online
A prestigious group of institutions is partnering to develop a flexible online tool to help researchers generate data management plans. This effort is in response to emerging demands from funding agencies, such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), that researchers plan for managing their research data.
The prototype online tool the group creates will be based on the requirements of national funding agencies and the institutions conducting the research, and will build upon the DMP Online tool developed by the UK Digital Curation Centre. It will allow researchers to quickly initiate a data management plan and provide answers to various data management questions relating to their research, such as how data will be documented throughout the research project and made available for public use and potential secondary uses, how data quality will be assured, their backup procedures, and preservation plans. It will also aid institutions in identifying associated costs and in forward resource planning. Before the tool is available, the partner institutions are ready to assist researchers with their data management needs.
Partners in this project:
- Digital Curation Centre (UK)
- Kevin Ashley, Director (email: info@dcc.ac.uk)
- Martin Donnelly, Curation Research Officer
- DataONE
- Amber Budden, Director for Community Outreach
- Smithsonian Institution
- Günter Waibel, Director, Digitization Program Office, Office of the Chief Information Officer (email: waibelg[at]si.edu)
- UC Curation Center, California Digital Library
- Trisha Cruse, Director (email: uc3@ucop.edu)
- Perry Willett, Service Manager
- UC library contacts
- UCLA Library
- Todd Grappone, Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Information Technology
- UC San Diego Libraries
- Bradley D. Westbrook, Metadata Librarian and Digital Archivist (email: bdwestbrook@ucsd.edu)
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Michael Grady, Executive Program Officer for Cyberinfrastructure, Office of the CIO
- Sarah Shreeves, IDEALS Coordinator and Scholarly Commons Coordinator, University Library
- University of Virginia Libraries
- Andrew Sallans, Head, Strategic Data Initiatives / Scientific Data Consulting Group
- Sherry Lake, Scientific Data Consultant, Scientific Data Consulting Group
