DMP Builder: A Web-based Tool to Help Prepare Data Management Plans
DMP Builder: A Web-based Tool to Help Prepare DATA MANAGEMENT PLANS!!! — HURRAY!
Greetings Everyone.
University of Alberta Libraries invites you to SIGN UP and SIGN IN to
the DMP Builder. Take a few minutes to explore this generalized tool
for producing data management plans which can be used for academic
purposes as well as research in the government and private sectors.
While the various sectors may have different needs from their DMPs, this
is easily resolved through a customized template. Following is the U of
A news released published yesterday.
University of Alberta Libraries is pleased to announce the launch of
DMP Builder
application will assist CANADIAN researchers in preparing clearly
stated plans supporting the data in their projects. Such plans typically
identify how researchers will address data security, metadata
production, file formats, file handling conventions, data sharing
practices, data dissemination methods, and arrangements for long-term
preservation. Some of these topics intersect with services that
institutions offer in support of research, such as our Library. Having
researchers identify and work with these institutional services at the
beginning of a research project will strengthen the research process by
putting in place a more comprehensive plan for a project’s research
data.
DMP Builder anticipates the introduction of data management plans as
part of the application process of Canadian research councils. As our
funding agencies determine their requirements and as research
communities in Canada articulate the data planning needs that best fit
their disciplinary profiles, templates will be incorporated within DMP
Builder to accommodate the needs of each organization. For example, we
are currently participating in the development of a template for
clinical research. This is being prepared in partnership with those
supporting the REDCap service on campus, a clinical research data
management system. In the meantime, a generic template based on today’s
best practices and on examples drawn from international research
councils and funding agencies has been provided.
DMP Builder is based on the DMPOnline project of the Digital Curation
Centre (UK). (https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/)
