status: Recognised & Endorsed

Chair (s): Angus Whyte, Fiona Murphy, Natalie Meyers, Kathryn Unsworth, Marie-Christine Jacquemot-Perbal

Group Email: [group_email]

Secretariat Liaison: enquiries[at]rd-alliance.org


A variety of stakeholders are showing growing interest in exposing data management plans (*) to other actors (human/machine) in the research lifecycle, beyond their creator and the funder or institution that mandates their production. Interested stakeholders include researchers themselves, funders, institutions, and a variety of service providers and community organisations including repositories, institutions, journals, publishers, and providers of tools for writing and maintaining plans.  Implementation and adoption is currently hampered by two problems:

  • A lack of standards for expression and interchange of DMPs

  • Insufficient understanding of the needs of users and the benefits and risks of different modes of action

This proposed working group will address both of these issues; the issue of a standardised form of expression for DMPs is the concern of the proposed DMP Common Standards Working Group. The group’s output will include a reference model and alternative strategies for exposing plans, to best serve community interests in meeting FAIR principles,  based on shared experience of ‘early adopters’ in test implementations. It will be supported by work to gauge user needs and motivations for exposing DMPs as well as perceived risks and disbenefits. Note * our main focus is on Data Management Plans (DMPs) but we will seek examples of Software Management Plans (SMPs) where relevant to the exposure use cases of interest to the Active DMP Interest Group.   

The key beneficiaries of the WG outcomes will be stakeholders with a common interest in using Data or Software Management Plans as instruments for demonstrating that research products have been managed according to research community standards and generic principles (e.g. that the research products should be FAIR), and that recognition is given for doing so. 

There is potential value in exposing plans for a variety of stakeholders involved in their production and consumption. These include researchers themselves, funders, institutions, and a variety of service providers and community organisations including repositories, institutions, journals, publishers, and providers of tools to help write and maintain plans. The WG will provide a Use Cases Catalogue to describe implementation scenarios and articulate their benefits to researchers and other stakeholders, with case studies of how those benefits have been realised. Through consultation with users of well-established planning tools (DMPTool, DMPonline), the Use Cases Catalogue will also identify the degree of acceptance among researchers for the levels of exposure/publication each use case entails, barriers to realising the benefits, and any concerns about undesirable impacts.

Generalising from the scenarios and  examples contained in the Use Cases Catalogue, the WG will produce a Reference Model to document generic components and workflows for exposing plans (and metadata about them), and offer recommendations for further action by each of the relevant stakeholder groups . By gaining endorsements for the Reference Model from relevant stakeholders for each use case we will provide a community endorsed approach to using plans to share demonstrable advancement in data sharing practice.

Posts

24
February
2023

DSG for DMP Public Writing Meeting March 7

by Shannon Sheridan

Hello all, The co-chairs of the Discipline-Specific Guidance for DMPs Working Group would like to invite you to a public meeting on *Tuesday, March 7*, 4pm CET (10am EDT, 7am PDT). We will continue work writing the discipline-specific guidance for DMPs! The Zoom registration information is below. Register in advance for this meeting: https://rwth.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpcOqhqD8qGNN3crYvaa9zoFe7AE-fn7p3
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28
October
2022

Invitation to participate in 'A Decade of Data: 10 Years of the RDA' events and activities

by Connie Clare

Good day, The RDA Secretariat would like to invite the Exposing Data Management Plans WG to participate in ‘A Decade of Data’: Celebrating 10 Years of the Research Data Alliance’. 10 months to celebrate 10 years of the RDA
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27
May
2022

Invitation and Help with Promotion for “Professionalising Data Stewardship | Global Updates To Inform RDA Community” Webinar taking place 30 June

by Yolanda Meleco

Hello.  We are writing to invite you to an upcoming webinar presented by the RDA Professionalising Data Stewardship Interest Group taking place at 14:00 UTC on 30 June. The webinar will introduce the Outputs of the groups and include the following speakers:
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10
January
2022

Public Collection of 800 + DMPs at Phaidra Repository

by Daniel Spichtinger

Dear all, As part of OpenAIRE advance I was involved last year in creating and analysing a collection of 800+ public Horizon 2020 Data Management. The findings of the analysis where already published in Open Research Europe at https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/1-42
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14
October
2021

Webinar designed for RDA Group participants

by Stephanie Hagstrom

Hello - My apologies for cross-posting. We wanted to be sure RDA group Chairs and group members received this information about an upcoming webinar specifically designed to provide tips and strategies for promoting project outputs. This webinar is designed for RDA Working and Interest Group Members, but anyone interested in this topic is also invited and welcome to attend. Please register and attend "How To Get Attention for Research Project Outputs " webinar on 21 Oct 2021 - 15:00 UTC presented by Jennifer Gibson. Register here.
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21
September
2021

Papers to do a systematic review

by Yulia Karimova

Dear colleagues,   My name is Yulia Karimova. I´m a PhD student at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, and I´m also a researcher and data steward at INESC TEC Porto. I’m a part of several RDA groups. My doctoral thesis is focused on DMP, namely the development of DMP services at an institution and the improvement of the RDM workflow in general. 
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08
September
2021

Sept 16 webinar ‘Navigating Data Sharing in International Research Collaborations (iN2N)'

by Stephanie Hagstrom

Hello RDA WG and IG members - We invite you to attend the upcoming webinar ‘Navigating Data Sharing in International Research Collaborations (iN2N)’ hosted by the RDA-US on 16 September at 14:00. This webinar will address the most challenging issues for data sharing in international research collaborations and will present a framework developed by the attendees of The International Network-of-Networks (iN2N) Global Expert workshop to address these challenges. Read more about the webinar and register here.
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14
June
2021

Webinar Promotional Help Please - RDA Library for Research Data Interest Group 

by Jamie Lupo-Petta

  Hello RDA Exposing Data Management Plans WG -     We hope you will attend and help us promote the upcoming RDA Library for Research Data Interest Group Webinar "Exploring Past, Present, and Future Outcomes of the RDA Libraries for Research Data Interest Group" being held on 28 June 2021 at 13:00 UTC.    
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24
February
2021

RDA Virtual Plenary 17 - Notification of Acceptance

by Secretariat Group Account

Dear Chairs of the Active Data Management Plans IG, The Technical Advisory Board (TAB) has completed its review of session applications for the RDA Virtual Plenary 17 (VP17) and has accepted your application titled Something ends, something begins - wrap of existing activities and discussion on the next!. Please consider this your official notification of acceptance. Congratulations!
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29
January
2021

RDA VP17 Session proposal submission

by Alexandra Delipalta

Dear Active Data Management Plans IG, Exposing Data Management Plans WG, and DMP Common Standards WG members,    Thank you for your session proposal for Virtual Plenary 17 titled ‘Something ends, something begins - wrap of existing activities and discussion on the next!’. A review of all submitted proposals is now underway by the RDA Technical Advisory Board, with notifications of acceptance planned to be sent by 26 February.   
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