NCST held a workshop for research grant recipients to provide information on the USDOT Public Access Plan and its requirements, guidance for writing a data management plan, best practices in managing data, and archiving and publishing data using the University of California’s Dash data repository. https://ncst.ucdavis.edu/research/data-management/

1. USDOT & Data Management Plans
Stephanie Simms PhD
California Digital Library
stephanie.simms@ucop.edu
UC Davis Institute ofTransportation Studies
20 September 2018

2. Who has written a data management plan?
…Why?

3. Overview
Data management plans and data sharing: What? Why?
USDOT Public Access Policy
Tools: DMPTool + Dash
https://dmptool.org

4. What is a data management plan (DMP)?
A document that describes what you will do with your data
during your research
and after you complete your project

5. Why DMPs and data sharing?
1. Because you have to >> Funder and publisher mandates
2. Because you should >> Open research practices
3. Because it will help you do your research!

6. USDOT Public Access Policy
Issued in response to the 2013 OSTP memo:
“Information is the fundamental currency of transportation research, and drives the
advances in safety, state of good repair, economic competitiveness, livable
communities and environmental sustainability that such research enables.
Information must be accessible and shared, and research collaboration encouraged,
to successfully address our constantly evolving transportation system challenges.
This plan sets out a framework for enhancing the tracking of the complete research
lifecycle at the project level, from project initiation to the submission of project
deliverables, and on to research implementation through the deployment of research
outputs and products.”

7. ORCID ID
https://orcid.org/

8. https://ntl.bts.gov/public-access

9. Why DMPs and data sharing?
1. Because you have to >> Funder and publisher mandates
2. Because you should >> Open research practices
3. Because it will help you do your research!
Data sharing and management Snafu in 3 Short Actshttps://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=66oNv_DJuPc

10. Planning &
administration
Create, analyze,
manage data
Publishing & reuse
• DMP often done at grant stage and not looked at
again
• Opportunities to (re)use information being missed
• Disconnected & unlinked

11. Planning &
administration
Create, analyze,
manage data
Publishing & reuse
• DMP as a living document
• Inventory of key project info: people, grants,
methods/protocols, outputs, etc.

24. Website
Twitter
Blog
dmptool.org
@TheDMPTool
blog.dmptool.org