THIS MONTH

Last month we had a call with the OPIDoR team, in France who have a national instance of DMPonline that they run themselves. They have made some nice extensions to the tool. For instance, on the templates page where you can see the different funders' templates they have added a button that lets you create a plan with one click. You just click 'create an AHRC plan' and the system automatically retrieves and fills in all your profile details (name, organisation, etc), and generates a plan based on the selected template. They have been also looking into adding datasets on DMPs, so you can record individual datasets. Another feature they are exploring is an API extension that pulls out the themes so you can start to look for questions that are about metadata, or about sharing or storage. Benjamin, the main tool developer at OPIDoR, is currently on holiday over the summer, but when he comes back we will be liaising with them to work on these features. For example, the one-click plan is a nice feature, easy to implement and without user testing. The other features however may require user feedback. We will be in touch with you about this.

Sam Rust, our software developer for DMPonline joined a call regarding RDA working group on solutions to DMPs. The call was also attended by Daniel Bangert, member of the RDA Secretariat, who introduced the session and gave an overview of outreach activities to promote the uptake of RDA Recommendations and Outputs globally. Kathryn Unsworth (CSIRO) introduced the RDA Exposing Data Management Plans Working Group, including an update on current and ongoing work. Tomasz Miksa (SBA Research) and Peter Neish (University of Melbourne) introduced the RDA DMP Common Standards Working Group, focusing on the standard for machine-actionable Data Management Plans (maDMP) released in April 2019. Finally, Sam Rust outlined the plans to implement the maDMP standard in DMPonline. Follow the link below to listen to the talk and view the slides.

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Thank you for your feedback in our recent survey! We will do our best to have a guest speaker each month from different institutions presenting how they go about using DMPonline, and you can ask questions, recommend new features, and talk to fellow users :) We had a very enjoyable August chat. We were joined by Marta Teperek and Madeleine de Smaele from Delft University of Technology from Netherlands who kindly shared their case study of using DMPonline. Sarah updated you about our new software developer post, and spoke about her most recent blog post, and you also asked us to add few new features to the tool. We are looking forward to chat to you all in September :) 

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This month we feature a story from DMPonline@TU Delft written by Madeleine de Smaele and Marta Teperek.

"Good research data management involves careful handling and organisation of research data throughout the research lifecycle and is a necessary prerequisite for effective data sharing and greater openness. For just doing that, TU Delft Library recently introduced DMPonline to help guide TU Delft researchers through the data management planning process."

This month we are featuring a video showing where to see the version of the template. 

Please let us know which features in particular you would like us to demonstrate and we can prepare help materials and add them to the user guide.