Data managementplanning: tools

Library – RDM Support Project

Basic training course for information specialists

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Data management planning: tools

Checklists

Templates

Online templates

Filled-in examples

Data profiles

Field-specific

Sponsor-specific

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Web pages with guidelines,

recommendations, etc.

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Checklists

List of focus points or questions

DANS

Digital Curation Centre

and many others

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Templates

Questionnaire, template

Wageningen Graduate Schools

University of Bath

and many others

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Online templates

Web application for creating, saving, updating and

sharing (different versions of) a data management plan

by means of a template

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https://dmp.cdlib.org/

University of California Curation Center (UC3) of the

California Digital Library, USA

Template entry: funder

E.g. National Science Foundation (NSF)

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https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/

Digital Curation Centre, UK

Template entry: funder, institution or field

UK Research Councils, Wellcome Trust, NSF,

universities, fields

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Field-specific

Often (also) funder-specific, e.g. Research Councils

(UK) and NSF Research Directorates (USA)

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/data-management-plans/funders-req

uirements

http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmp.jsp

For field-specific DMP, see also: filled-in examples

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Field-specific

Usually: adaptation of a generic template to a specific

research project

E.g. astronomical research: no paragraph on privacy protection;

research in collaboration with industry: extra attention for rights of

ownership; etc.

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Funder-specific

KNAW: data paragraph

NWO: data contract (Hum./Soc. & Hum.)

ZonMw: guidelines under development

EU Horizon 2020: data management plan

Approach: Open Access to research data

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Filled-in examples

Digital Curation Centre (UK)http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/data-management-plans/guidance-examples

Purdue University Research Repository (USA)https://purr.purdue.edu/dmp/dmpexamples

and many others

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Data profiles

Data Curation Profiles Toolkit (interview material)http://datacurationprofiles.org/

Data Curation Profiles Directory (filled-in profiles)

http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dcp/

Approach: sustainable storage of data

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Beyond categorisation

UK Data Service: Data management costing tool

http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/manage-data/plan/costing.aspx

checklist for estimating the costs of data management

(Social Sciences)

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Assessment criteria

Contents

Has the researcher thought of everything he/she

should after filling in this template?

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Assessment criteria

Language

Does this template require subtitles or is its language

easy to understand?

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Assessment criteria

Style

Does the style of the template encourage ticking boxes

to ‘get it over with’ or does it encourage the user to fill

it in carefully?

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Exercise

Compare the DMP checklists/templates of DANS, Digital

Curation Centre (DCC), University of Bath and Wageningen

Graduate Schools (WGS).

Do you have a preference for one of the four? Why?

Which requirements do you think a template should

satisfy?

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Publication information

Presentation: Mariëtte van Selm | selm@uva.nl

Image on title slide: Jørgen Stamp | http://www.digitalbevaring.dk/

M. van Selm, RDM Support - basic training course for information specialists, course material for session 2. January 2014.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence.