The final months of the development are upon us, and the release schedule fore the DMPTool 2 has been finalized. Below are some important dates, culminating in a late May release. May 5th: Informational emails sent to administrators. May 14th: … Continue reading →
Author: Dan Phipps
DMPTool2 Development: User Experience Testing
Our first round of user experience testing wrapped up last week, with a focus on administrator tasks like managing users, creating custom data management plan templates, and adding institution information or logos. Here’s a quick update on what we learned. … Continue reading →
DMPTool2 Release Schedule Update
The DMPTool team just concluded our meetings last week at CDL to hash out the remaining work to be done before the DMPT2 release. To ensure quality, we’re pushing the release of this update back to Spring, with a soft … Continue reading →
DMPTool 2 Feature Highlight: Guidance and Review
In this final feature highlight post, we’re going to focus on the ways the DMPTool 2 can make it easier for grant writers to get feedback on their data management plans. Submitting for Review Institutions have the option to allow … Continue reading →
DMPTool 2 Feature Highlight: Co-Ownership & Administration
For this post, we’re going to look at some of the upcoming features to improve the DMPTool as a collaborative tool. Institutional Customization Administrators will be able to match the tool to the structure of their institution. For example, the … Continue reading →
Call for Example Data Management Plans
One of the ways we are hoping to support DMPTool users is to provide examples of quality data management plans to go alongside the help text and example answers. It’s one of our more requested features, and gives new users … Continue reading →
DMPTool2 Feature Highlight: Interface and Customization
This week at the Digital Library Federation’s 2013 Forum in Austin, Texas the DMPTool team was given the opportunity to present some of the major changes coming in the DMPTool2. Over the next couple of weeks we’ll be posting in-depth … Continue reading →
DMPTool at the Data Information Literacy Symposium
Purdue University in Indiana hosted the Data Information Literacy (DIL) Symposium this year, a culmination of the IMLS funded research project on the DIL needs of technology driven research scientists. A dense, two-day session of seminars, discussions and poster presentation … Continue reading →
Update: DMPTool 2 Features Overview
We have added a one-page overview of the features for users and administrators currently in development for the DMPTool 2 to our bitbucket wiki. Designed to complement the more technically oriented requirements documentation, we will be keeping the overview up-to-date … Continue reading →
Survey: Tools to Integrate with DMPTool
One of our goals to help guide the development of the DMPTool is to provide guidance on how the DMPTool can support data management beyond the planning stage. One of the best ways to do that is to look at … Continue reading →