Next-Generation Data Management Plans: Global, Machine-Actionable, FAIR

• Main Authors: Stephanie Renee Simms, Sarah Jones
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Edinburgh 2017-09-01
• Series: International Journal of Digital Curation
• Online Access: http://www.ijdc.net/article/view/513

At IDCC 2016 the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and University of California Curation Center (UC3) at the California Digital Library (CDL) announced plans to merge our respective data management planning tools, DMPonline and DMPTool, into a single platform. By formalizing our partnership and co-developing a core infrastructure for data management plans (DMPs), we aim to meet the skyrocketing demand for our services in our national, and increasingly international, contexts. The larger goal is to engage with what is now a global DMP agenda and help make DMPs a more useful exercise for all stakeholders in the research enterprise. This year we offer a progress report that encompasses our co-development roadmap and future enhancements focused on implementing use cases for machine-actionable DMPs.