The University of California and several other major research institutions have partnered to develop the DMPTool, a flexible online application to help researchers generate data management plans - simple but effective documents for ensuring good data stewardship. These plans increasingly are being required by funders such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (GBMF). The DMPTool supports data management plans and funder requirements across the disciplines, including the humanities and physical, medical and social sciences.
The DMPTool is open source, freely available and easily configurable to reflect an institution's local policies and information. Users of the DMPTool can view sample plans, preview funder requirements and view the latest changes to their plans. It permits the user to create an editable document for submission to a funding agency and can accommodate different versions as funding requirements change. Not only can researchers use the tool to generate plans compliant to funder requirements, but institutions can also use the tool to present information and policies relevant to data management and to foster collaboration among faculty, the institutional libraries, contracts and grants offices, and academic computing.
Project partners include the University of California Curation Center (UC3) at the California Digital Library; the UCLA Library; the UC San Diego Libraries; the Smithsonian Institution; the University of Virginia Library; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; DataONE; and the UK's Digital Curation Centre. Working collaboratively, these institutions have consolidated their expertise and reduced their costs.
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