Update on machine-actionable DMP work presented at RDA plenary 9

1. Machine-actionable DMPs:
a review of recent work
Sarah Jones | Digital Curation Centre | sarah.jones@glasgow.ac.uk
Stephanie Simms | California Digital Library | stephanie.simms@ucop.edu
Daniel Mietchen | National Institutes of Health | daniel.mietchen@nih.gov
Tomasz Miksa| TU Wien | tmiksa@sba-research.org
#ActiveDMPs

2. By Josiah Martin public domain

3. Planning &
administration
Create, analyse,
manage data
Publishing & reuse
• DMP on periphery
• Often done at grant stage and
not looked at again
• Opportunities to (re)use
information being missed
• Disconnected & unlinked

4. RDA/US Data Share Fellowship
• Reviewed existing work on active DMPs
• Identified gaps and priorities
• Presenting ideas at various fora
www.slideshare.net/StephanieSimms/
making-dmps-actionable-and-public

5. CERN Active DMPs workshop
• 3 day workshop in June 2016
• Consider DMPs in different disciplines, countries, funders
• Identify issues and how to get things moving
• Aim to develop roadmap to
– Change the way that funders expect DMPs to be produced
– Ensure DMPs - are created, evaluated, monitored – to enable data to be
exploited immediately and over the long term
– Support (EU and other) Data Principles
https://indico.cern.ch/event/520120

6. Discussion points at CERN
• Understand how DMPs can help identify synergies
across projects and disciplines
• DMPs should facilitate researchers’ work and act as
a discovery tool
• Active data management planning can deal with the
change of plans
• Role of DMP in encouraging dialogue between
funders, service providers, and scientists
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ulZv_
HQy1vLw2srQE2jtT3RpzD_wQwdqHXY80hdqcRU/edit#

7. Actions from CERN meeting
• Run more events!
• Collect concrete use cases
• Contact funders to understand their needs
• Identify benefits to data creators / funders / society
• Try to re-use existing standards/mechanisms
• Make a series of good DMPs public

8. 47 participants from 16 countries
• Funders
• Developers
• Librarians
• Service providers
• Researchers
Understand research workflows
Develop use cases for maDMPs
Set priorities for future work
www.dcc.ac.uk/events/workshops/
postcard-future-tools-and-services-
perfect-dmp-world
Utopia workshop

10. Uses cases and prioritisation
• Interoperability with research systems
• Institutional perspective
• Repository use cases
• Evaluation & monitoring
• Leveraging PIDs

11. maDMP priority areas
• Common standards and protocols
• Leveraging PIDs for automatic reporting etc
• Capacity planning (institutional & data centre)
• Increasing data discovery & reuse
• Supporting evaluation & monitoring
• Share/publish/deposit DMPs

12. White paper for comments
• Share your needs
• Help us iterate
• Provide your time,
ideas, resources to
help pilot work
http://riojournal.com/
articles.php?id=13086

13. From Flickr by Ethan Lofton
CC-BY 2.0

14. Next steps: maDMP pilots
From Flickr by Allen, CC BY 2.0