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

First DMPonline demo sessions - providing feedback

You voted for ‘providing feedback,’ to be the first session, and so with my colleagues in the DMPonline team, we started to plan the day for you. We put together a shared agenda which we hope to be a living document for these sessions, something you can always come back to in order to see what we worked on and what we are planning to work on! 

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DMPonline team updates for the past month

Over the past month we spent a considerable amount of time of going through Rails5 upgrade and UAT. We are now planning a release and we are very pleased this work is currently coming to an end! We also had an internal DMPonline team meeting at the end of this month where we took the time to reflect on the past few months and look at the contract work which we have for the months to come as well as the work we have planned for the Roadmap by the end of 2020. Those meetings will help us with planning our work more reliably. 

DMPonline will be celebrating 10th year anniversary and we are planning a whole week for reflection of how we started. where we are and where are we heading to... We will be in touch with some of you with invitations to contribute content to the week so keep an eye on the emails coming from DMPonline, and we are busy with putting together new events, planning user group on proposed features development from our roadmap backlog.  

DMPonline Usability Testing - summary 

Theo Higham and Diana Sisu ran DMPonline usability testing over the summer. We carried out our last usability assessment for DMPonline in 2013, and with introducing new functionalities for administrators we have decided to revisit our interface. Theo and Diana worked together on a blog post which gives a brief overview of their findings. 

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Short summary from August drop-in session

In our August drop-in session, we were joined by Peter Smith from Sheffield Hallam University. Sheffield Hallam university has 30 000+ students, 3 colleges and 4 research institutes. In their library research support team, they have 5 team members. The research data management service is offering training and support, DMP review (which get submitted as a part of the ethics application and triggers a notification for review or conversation) and data archiving. Currently DMPonline is used for half of the submitted plans which also creates a challenge as it is only half of the plans they would like to see. After Peter’s talk you asked loads of interesting questions around exporting DMPs into different systems; how they go about ‘know everything’ researchers and making them to join the training sessions or archiving DMPs and I would highly recommend to listen to the recording in the link below to find out more!  

Listen here. 

DMPonline at the University of Sussex by Adam Harwood

DMPonline  Tutorial - Providing Feedback