DMP online - Data Management made easy

Hardy SchwammResearch Data and Repository Manager

h.schwamm@lancaster.ac.ukTel. (01524) 594 116

Overview

• What is a Data Management Plan?

• Features of the DMPonline tool

• DMPonline demo

What is research data management?

Plan

Create

Document

Use

Publish

Share

“the active management and

appraisal of data over the

lifecycle of scholarly and

scientific interest”

Data management is part of

good research practice

What is a Data Management Plan?

What do they include?• What data will be created and how? • Outline the plans for sharing and preservation, noting what is appropriate given the

nature of the data • Any restrictions that may need to be appliedWho requires them?• Most of the RCUK with EPSRC as an exception • Some charities such as Cancer Research UK• Horizon2020 Data Pilots• Lancaster University!When are they required?• Most DMPs are required at the application stage• Exceptions:

– NERC: minimal DMP at application stage, expanded in collaboration with the relevant NERC data centre post award

– Horizon2020 data pilot: no DMP at application stage, but: three in-project iterations: one within 6 months, one midway through the project, and one at its conclusion.

• Lancaster University RDM Policy requires DMP “at funding application stage or at the beginning of the project”

How to fill in a DMP?

1. Use funder template, e.g. AHRC

2. Use “one stop shop” tool DMPonline

• Developed by leading experts: Digital Curation Centre (DCC)

• Includes templates of all major UK funders and some international (NSF, H2020)

• Includes Lancaster University DMP Template

• Share DMPs with collaborators

• Export in different formats (pdf, txt)

DMPonline demo

• https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk

• Create account

• Choose template

• Use Guidance

• Share template

• Export

• Shows how much space you have used if there is a page limit

Conclusions

• Useful tool that helps with many aspects of DMPs

• Funder templates always up to date

• Active user group that will develop DMPonline further

• Some control over formatting

• Lancaster guidance will be developed

• Integration with Lancaster systems (?)