Building on the conceptual framework laid out in articles such as Ten principles for machine-actionable data management plans and prior blog posts covering such topics as what maDMPs are, what they can do to support automation, utilizing common standards and … Continue reading →
Category: General
What’s new with the DMPTool?
The past few months have been quite fruitful in terms of pushing forward on the technical details surrounding machine-actionable DMPs. The common data model for the creation of machine-actionable DMPs, produced by the RDA working group on DMP Common Standards, … Continue reading →
Meet the new DMPTool Product Manager
Today, August 19, marks my seventh week as the new DMPTool Product Manager, and the latest Research Data Specialist to join the team at UC3. I’m thrilled to be joining such an active and engaged community of professionals committed to … Continue reading →
Representing time in machine-actionable DMPs
In this next installment of the machine-actionable DMP blog series, we want to address the broader context of time to hone in on answering the following question: How and when do you update some piece of information in a DMP? … Continue reading →
Common standards and PIDs for machine-actionable DMPs
Picking up where we left off from “Machine-actionable DMPs: What can we automate?”… Let’s unpack a couple of topics central to our machine-actionable DMP prototyping and automating efforts. These are the top rallying themes from all conversations, workshops, and working … Continue reading →
Prettier and mobile-ready(-er)
The latest DMPTool release is focused on making the tool more attractive and mobile-ready, AND more accessible (release notes). Continue reading for highlights and screenshots, or you can visit the live version of the tool for an improved user experience. … Continue reading →
Roadmap back to school edition
Summer activities and latest (major 2.0.0) release The DMPRoadmap team is checking in with an overdue update after rotating holidays and work travels over the past few months. We also experienced some core team staff transitions and began juggling some … Continue reading →
Minor NSF template updates + other miscellanea
In the waning weeks of summer, we accomplished a wide range of DMPTool things. A bulleted summary of mostly template-related updates is below. Admins should take note that the minor National Science Foundation (NSF) template updates resulted in new versions … Continue reading →
Machine-actionable DMPs: What can we automate?
Following on some initial thoughts about Scoping Machine-Actionable DMPs (maDMPs), we’re keen to dive into the substance. There are plenty of research questions we plan to explore here and over the course of our maDMP prototyping efforts. Let’s begin with these: … Continue reading →
Release notes: Guidance, Request feedback, and fixes
We just deployed some bug fixes and minor changes to the DMPTool based on your feedback. Comprehensive release notes are available in GitHub. Keep reading for a summary of things that affect the user interface: Guidance and Customizing Templates You … Continue reading →