RDA Plenary 9 We had another productive gathering of #ActiveDMPs enthusiasts at the Research Data Alliance (RDA) plenary meeting in Barcelona (5-7 Apr). Just prior to the meeting we finished distilling all of the community’s wonderful ideas for machine-actionable DMP … Continue reading →
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Active, actionable DMPs
Roadmap project IDCC debriefing We had a spectacularly productive IDCC last month thanks to everyone who participated in the various meetings and events focused on the DMPRoadmap project and machine-actionable DMPs. Thank you, thank you! Sarah has since taken the … Continue reading →
DMPTool and RDM consultants support humanities grant submission
The following is a guest post by Quinn Dombrowski of the UC Berkeley RDM Program. The original is available at http://researchdata.berkeley.edu/stories When preparing a proposal to a funding agency, researchers focus on the grant narrative, framing their work in the most … Continue reading →
Roadmap retrospective: 2016
2016 in review The past year has been a wild ride, in more ways than one… Despite our respective political climates, UC3 and DCC remain enthusiastic about our partnership and the future of DMPs. Below is a brief retrospective about … Continue reading →
DMP themes: And then there were 14…
by Sarah Jones We issued a call for input on the DMP themes in late September and received feedback from across the UK, Europe and the USA. Many thanks to all who responded. It’s really helped to confirm our thinking. … Continue reading →
DMPTool: Fixed things and new things
Our development efforts are mostly trained on the new Roadmap platform—the next update is just on the horizon—however, there were a few DMPTool things that deserved attention this month. Enhancements Assign Roles: The functionality that allows institutional admins to grant admin privileges … Continue reading →
Finding our Roadmap rhythm
In keeping with our monthly updates about the merged Roadmap platform, here’s the short and the long of what we’ve been up to lately: Short update Co-development on Roadmap codebase (current sprint) Adding documentation to DMPRoadmap GitHub wiki Machine-actionable DMPs Substance … Continue reading →
New template: DOD
As far as we can discern, DMPs are not yet a required component of Department of Defense (DOD) grant applications. But in an effort to address numerous user requests for a DOD template, we went ahead and created one based … Continue reading →
A common set of themes for DMPs: Seeking input
When the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) revised DMPonline in 2013, we introduced the concept of themes to the tool. The themes represent the most common topics addressed in Data Management Plans (DMPs) and work like tags to associate questions and … Continue reading →
New release: Privacy policy, plan visibility, and more…
We just released a batch of subtle changes designed to boost community insight into DMP behaviors. With DMPTool usage continuing to grow in leaps and bounds, we’re well embedded in burgeoning initiatives to build RDM programs, promote open scholarship, and reimagine DMPs … Continue reading →