Funding bodies increasingly require their grant-holders to produce a Data Management Plan (DMP), both during the bid-preparation stage and after funding has been secured. DMPonline helps research teams respond to this requirement, and any expectations that their institution or others may apply.
DMPonline is based on the open source DMPRoadmap codebase, which is jointly developed by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the University of California Curation Center (UC3). The DCC & UC3 work closely with research funders and universities to produce a tool that generates active DMPs and caters for the whole lifecycle of a project, from bid-preparation stage through to completion.
If you have an account please sign in and start creating or editing your DMP.
If you do not have a DMPonline account, click on 'Create account' on the homepage.
Please visit the 'Help' page for guidance.
We are constantly improving the user interface and functionality of DMPonline. If you would like to contribute with feedback and suggestions, please contact us by emailing dmponline@dcc.ac.uk. You can also report bugs and request new features directly on GitHub
DMPonline stories from the DCC website
Summary from our DMPonline user group held in Utrecht.
By magdalena.drafiova on 03/02/2020
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2019 was a pivotal year for DMPonline. Having introduced a new subscription model in November 2018 to sustain the DCC-led service, the last 12 months saw us develop a solid user base. This uptake has allowed us to grow the team and increase our engagement channels to ensure the service continues to meet user needs.
By sarah.jones on 30/01/2020
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This month we are sharing knowledge exchange blog post written by Peter Neish from the University of Melbourne.
By magdalena.drafiova on 08/01/2020
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In the middle of November we were joined for three days by our colleagues Maria Praetzellis and Brian Riley from DMPTool and Benjamin Faure from OPIDoR. On our end Sarah Jones, Sam Rust, Ray Carrick, Marta Nicholson, Diana Sisu and Magdalena Drafiova represented DMPonline. Over the three days we had a mix of group discussions to plan the future development roadmap (results of that later), as well as developer / project manager sessions and discussions with the wider DCC and CDL team on machine-actionable DMPs.
By magdalena.drafiova on 03/12/2019
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This month we are featuring a blog post from Lindsey Myers, Research Support Librarian at University of York. "With limited resource it is important to seize opportunities when they arise. The team quickly realised the value of DMPonline and we incorporated it into our service provision at an early stage. DMPonline is a tool that we actively promote to our research staff and research students in one-to-one appointments, at the training we deliver and online (e.g. within our RDM online tutorial)."
By magdalena.drafiova on 19/11/2019
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Over the past few months we’ve been reconsidering DMPonline hosting – should we move to Amazon Web Services or remain with the University of Edinburgh. Brexit and ensuring we can meet our Service Level Agreements were two major concerns in this decision-making process. After investigating options, we have decided to remain with University of Edinburgh hosting. This blog post outlines our thoughts.
By sarah.jones on 12/11/2019
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On the 17th September 2019 we ran a user group at the London School of Economics. For the first time we had a user group with subscribers from the UK, Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands so we could look at the tool from different perspectives and backgrounds. It was great to discuss how you use DMPonline, which new functionalities you wish us to add to the tool, and to get your feedback on our future plans and developments.
By magdalena.drafiova on 27/09/2019
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Following on from our user group last week, the DMPonline team met yesterday and has prioritised the feature requests you raised. Ray Carrick started work for the DCC on Monday so we have doubled developer effort, and with Marta rejoining later in the year we’re pressing full steam ahead!
By sarah.jones on 27/09/2019
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This month we are sharing a blog post from Maastricht University Medical Center written by Mirjam Kamps. "Since more and more funders require researchers to write a Data Management Plan we were looking for a tool with added value for the researchers. We were aiming for a user-friendly tool with opportunities for development. That is why two years ago we decided to start working with a local version of DMPonline: DMPMaastricht."
By magdalena.drafiova on 26/09/2019
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This month we are featuring a story from DMPonline@TU Delft written by Madeleine de Smaele and Marta Teperek. "Good research data management involves careful handling and organisation of research data throughout the research lifecycle and is a necessary prerequisite for effective data sharing and greater openness. For just doing that, TU Delft Library recently introduced DMPonline to help guide TU Delft researchers through the data management planning process."
By magdalena.drafiova on 27/08/2019
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I've had a number of inspiring DMP discussions over the last few weeks, both Australian and European based. Here in Oz, funders do not require data management plans like they do in the UK and USA. This has led to the growth of quite different tools as institutions fit the DMP to local priorities.
By sarah.jones on 20/08/2019
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Magdalena summarises DMPonline July 2019 release.
By magdalena.drafiova on 29/07/2019
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Based on your feedback, we are revisiting the subscription models for DMPonline.
By magdalena.drafiova on 25/06/2019
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On Monday (10th June 2019), we ran a workshop in Hamburg at the Open Repositories conference where we discussed potential connection points between Data Management Plans and repository platforms. We had a great variety of attendees from different backgrounds (librarians, repository managers, developers, researchers) and different countries (South Africa, China, Japan, Australia, Canada, Germany, UK and Norway amongst others). As a result our discussions were very rich and informed by various perspectives and viewpoints.
By magdalena.drafiova on 13/06/2019
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Magdalena summarises May 2019 DMPonline release.
By magdalena.drafiova on 03/06/2019
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