Data Management Plan Tool

Do you need a data management plan to include with your grant proposal? The University of Washington teamed up with the California Digital Library to offer you just the tool. DMPTool walks users step-by-step through the requirements for a variety of funding agencies, provides examples, and exports a text-based data management plan that can easily be inserted into a grant.

Video made available via CC-BY license from the California Digital Library.

To get started, visit DMPTool's log-in page, choose the University of Washington as your institution, and enter your NetID and password.

Data Management Plan Learning Session: 4/29, 2-3:30pm

On Wednesday, April 29, data librarian Jenny Muilenburg will lead a learning session titled "Data Management Plans: Reading, Writing and Sharing," from 2-3:30pm in the Allen Auditorium (Allen Library, University of Washington). During this 90 minutes, attendees will spend time learning about the different disciplinary and/or agency requirements for data management plans (DMPs), and will look at some examples from different disciplines. Tools and resources available to UW patrons will also be introduced, including DMP consults by librarians and DMPTool.

If you're unfamiliar with data management plans (or research data management in general), these very short videos from the University of Minnesota are a great introduction, and will be good preparation for the session.

This workshop is the last in a series began last fall. The first two were "Data Librarianship: Skills and Definitions," and "Archives & Repositories." See the workshop links here: http://staffweb.lib.washington.edu/units/Research-data-services/news/monday-april-20-2-3-30pm-data-management-plans-reading-writing-and-sharing.