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June 2021
 
Welcome to our June 2021 DMPonline newsletter! 

Our monthly newsletter will keep you updated about new features, functionality, and important days for your calendar. 

THIS MONTH

You will find the summaries of our April and May drop-ins, knowledge exchange blog post from Tuija Korhonen, Mari Elisa Kuusniemi, Soile Manninen and Mikko Ojanen from the Tuuli Office, Finland. We are also sharing summary from the virtual DMPonline user group, advert for lead software developer at DMPonline and invite you to take part in our summer survey as we want to ensure that we run the right online events four you after the summer months!

Virtual DMPonline user group - summer 2021

It has been some time since last user group and after some brainstorming how to do this effectively in the virtual environment, we thought that discussing new features that you would like to see would be a useful exercise at this point in time. Patricia suggested to ask you to raise the issues prior the session as an open discussion is more difficult online and this helped us structure the event. We have decided to run a half day event with a coffee break. We divided the day into two halves where in the first part we gave an update on the service and introduced the concept of voting, and in the second part we had the opportunity to discuss the features that gained the most votes. The agenda has now been updated with links to the presentation from the day which you can access here. In this blog post you will find out how we ran the day, what we learned from the discussion and what our plans are going ahead.
 
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New job in the DMPonline team at the DCC

We have a new job opening for a senior technical role in the DMPonline service at the DCC. Whether or not you're currently looking for a job, our director would urge you to take a look at this role to see if it is of interest. If it's not for you, pass the news to friends and colleagues who may be interested.
 
The formal details, and the link for applications, are available from the University of Edinburgh's recruitment system. In this news item, our director describes in less formal language what we're looking for and what you can expect should your application be successful.
 
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Introducing User Acceptance Testing for your newly customised DMPonline pages

The benefit of subscribing to our enhanced package is that you get to customise your pages. In our recent blog post, we have laid out how we revisited and improved the process. One of the areas where we have realised we will need to improve on is also introducing UAT (User Acceptance Testing) for your newly customised testing pages. In this blog post I summarise how to go about testing your newly created pages, however you can also watch a video.
 
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We are revisiting online events! Take part in our survey

We have been running regular virtual events since we launched DMPonline as a paid service (including drop-ins, demo sessions, trainings and user groups). Since it has been some time, we want to revisit the type of events we run, their frequency and focus of these. We want to find out how to notify you the best about the upcoming sessions, what do you want us to deliver, and whether there are some lessons learned you would like to share with us and suggest to us what to do. We are taking time off for two months from running online events, but we are using this as an opportunity to run and analyse the survey and plan the year ahead accordingly. Please take part in our short survey and help us to shape the future online events!

DMPonline team updates for the past month

Our technical team has been working through Rails5 outstanding bugs, working through customisations, and planning contractual or project work with our colleagues from DMPAssistant and TU Delft.
Together with TU Delft colleagues, we ran an update webinar on our funded project. Slides and recording can be found on zenodo.
We also run our first virtual DMPonline user group at the beginning of June and last DMPonline drop-in session prior taking two months off during July and August which we will use to revisit the amount and type of online events. Diana has been working on branding guidelines and new guides for new customers on our branding workflows.

Short summary from the April drop-in session

During April’s drop-in session we were joined by Irina van Dijk from UMC Utrecht. UMC Utrecht is aacademic hospital with loads of employees and researches. They have been having RDM policy in place for couple of years and they encourage to use UMC Utrecht specific template as a part of the research approval, before the ethical approval and before the complete DMP is in place. They try to make researchers to be excited about DMPs – so when researchers start writing DMPs they have meeting where they discuss questions they could not answer and the template has a lot of links where researchers can be linked with the other research procedures.
 
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Short summary from the May drop-in session

During May’s drop in session we did not have a guest speaker but we shared the latest updates with you. Patricia presented that we are almost finished with the Rails5 upgrade. We also discussed how do you go about publishing templates when these have been approved by the funders and invited you to take part in our ongoing summer survey where we are trying to revisit the type, scope and amount of online events we will be running for you after the summer.
 
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DMPonline demo session – Google Analytics

In May’s demo session we run through how to use Google Analytics with DMPonline. You can see the living agenda and the recording below.

DMPTuuli and DMPonline - together since 2016

This month we are featuring a blog post written by Tuija Korhonen, Mari Elisa Kuusniemi, Soile Manninen and Mikko Ojanen from the Tuuli Office, Finland.
 
DMPTuuli is a data management planning tool tailored to the needs of the Finnish research community. The tool was tailored in the Tuuli project. It is a national instance of DMPonline (Roadmap) hosted by DCC. The Ministry of Education and Culture funds the Tuuli project. The project is led by the national steering group which represents our user organisations from higher education, research institutes, and other important national stakeholders related to open science and science IT. We realised the need for data management services in Finnish research libraries around 2010, LIBER launched its recommendations for libraries in 2012 and in 2015 the search for a common national DMP tool started.
 
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DMPonline events are listed on this page. We are running survey over the summer to revisit the type of events we will be running after the summer, but see below the planned drop-in for September.

  • 23 September at 10:30 DMPonline drop-in -  Zoom (https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/82177831293; Meeting ID: 821 7783 1293, Passcode: 9N=i!ffz). Guest speaker: Sanna-Isabel Ulfsparre from Umea University
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