Abstract
This paper provides a comparative discussion of the strategies employed in the UK’s DMP Online tool and the US’s DMPTool, both designed to provide a structured environment for research data management planning (DMP) with explicit links to funder requirements. Following the Sixth International Digital Curation Conference, held in Chicago in December 2010, a number of US institutions partnered with the Digital Curation Centre’s DMP Online team to learn from their experiences while developing a US counterpart. DMPTool arrived in beta in August 2011 and released a production version in November 2011. This joint paper will compare and contrast use cases, organizational and national/cultural characteristics that have influenced the development decisions, outcomes achieved so far, and planned future developments.
Highlights
In December 2010, a group of institutions entered into discussion around creation of a single tool to address the data management planning needs of numerous funding agencies within the United States
Recognizing the extensive thought, broad consultation and shared effort that went into the development of the first version of data management planning (DMP) Online1, the US team immediately sought international collaboration to leverage this existing work and mirror the international nature of collaboration that flourishes within many research communities
JISC has funded two projects to investigate integrating DMP Online with institutional administrative systems, which should serve to situate the tool within the broader research ecosystem
Summary
DMP Online assists researchers, data custodians and other stakeholders in creating, maintaining and exporting data management plans. Users have the ability to export their plans (or sub-sections thereof, in order to satisfy different stakeholder groups) in a variety of formats, including PDF and DOCX, which assist in formatting and presenting their material in the right way for different audiences, and XML and Comma Separated Values (CSV), each of which supports linkage between DMP Online and other preservation tools and research information/administrative systems.
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