DMP Online and DMPTool: Different Strategies Towards a Shared Goal

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 Di...

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Main Authors: Andrew Sallans, Martin Donnelly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2012-10-01
Series:International Journal of Digital Curation
Online Access:http://129.215.67.233/ijdc/article/view/235
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1746-8256