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 →
Category: General
Hang A DMPTool Poster!
In addition to working hard on the new version of the DMPTool (to be released in May), we are also working on outreach and education materials that promote the use of the DMPTool. Our latest addition to these materials is … Continue reading →
DMP tools workshop at #IDCC14 by Sarah Jones
Sarah Jones of the Digital Curation Centre joined DMPTool colleagues to present on the two main data management planning tools, DMPOnline and DMPTool, at the International Digital Curation Conference this week in San Francisco. She wrote about the workshop on the … 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 →
DMPTool2 Project – October 2013 Report
Overview DMPTool2 continues to take shape and we are now shifting more into planning for release and promotion. Technical Team The development team is presently focused on connecting the HTML presentation layer to the application layer and bringing the second … 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 →
DMPTool2 Project – September 2013 Report
Overview DMPTool2 is starting to shape-up and is moving into the period where the application and user interface will come together and we’ll start to see a real, live new version! Technical Team Over the past month we have seen … 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 →