What’s new with the DMPTool?
DMPTool Blog 2020-06-13
The past few months have been quite fruitful in terms of pushing forward on the technical details surrounding machine-actionable DMPs.
The common data model for the creation of machine-actionable DMPs, produced by the RDA working group on DMP Common Standards, was recently released for community feedback. With our partners at the Digital Curation Center (DCC), we are now actively incorporating this model into the DMPRoadmap codebase and our DMPTool development plans.
As part of our NSF EAGER grant, CDL has partnered with DataCite to explore how DOI infrastructure could enable the passing of information between RDM systems and supporting integration between various related systems. The initial phase of this work includes piloting workflows that efficiently move information between stakeholders, systems, and researcher workflows. Our goal is a working prototype developed by mid-October of this year. This is exciting as it represents the first step towards realizing our long-term goal of machine-actionable DMPs as critical infrastructure in the research process.
Community involvement
Another key goal for the coming months is to re-engage the DMPTool community via regular virtual user meetings, the re-creation of advisory boards, and most importantly hearing more from you about how the DMPTool is working (or not) and gathering feedback on future developments and ideas for new areas of making the DMPTool even more useful and vital. In the coming weeks, we will reach out with more details on the above. However, in the meantime, please feel free to contact me and introduce yourself!
I am interested in hearing any input, questions, comments or feedback. You can contact me directly at maria.praetzellis@ucop.edu.