The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) requires grant applicants to complete a document entitled “Specifications for Projects that Develop Digital Products” when appropriate. They added a new section, Part III, for data management plans for research projects. Applicants are asked to respond to 11 questions. As the introduction to Part III states:

IMLS encourages sharing of research data. The purpose of this section is to help IMLS understand a grant applicant’s research practices and plans for management of data that would be generated through a proposed research project. If the proposed project activities will generate datasets with the potential for future re-use or repurposing, answer the following questions.

The DMPTool now includes support for the IMLS data management requirements–you’ll see it listed in the dropdown box when you “Create a new plan” after logging in.

The recording and slides from the webinar “Data management plans: tips, tricks and tools” are now available:

• Slides (on SlideShare)
• Recording

This webinar, presented by Carly Strasser and Perry Willett of the California Digital Library, introduces the data management plan as a significant part of any scientific research involving data. It also gives a brief overview of the DMPTool as an important tool for creating data management plans.

We’re beginning the next phase of development, and would greatly welcome any opinions or ideas you have for improving the DMPTool. Please help us by taking a moment to complete our brief, 5-question survey. We will hold a meeting in late January to discuss next steps, and will incorporate survey results into our discussions. The survey is available here:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LSTV8QL

In addition to the survey, we always welcome direct contact and feedback. Please feel free to contact us at uc3@ucop.edu with questions, comments, or opportunities.

The California Digital Library is offering a webinar on data management plans and the DMPTool. Carly Strasser and Perry Willett of the University of California Curation Center (UC3) will present “Data Management Plans: Tips, Tricks and Tools,” covering best practices for scientific data management, and introduce the DMPTool as an important tool for creating and managing data management plans. The webinar will be offered twice; please join us on one of these days:

• Wed Jan 11, 2:00pm-3:00pm (PST) [Pre-registration required]
• Thur Jan 19, 10:00am-11:00am (PST) [Pre-registration required]

Preregistration is required. Please visit the UC3 webinar page for more information, or contact uc3@ucop.edu with any questions.

Laine Farley and Sherry Lake will present a “Project Briefing” on the DMPTool at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall 2011 Membership meeting in Arlington VA on Dec 12 at 5:15pm. Laine is the Executive Director of the California Digital Library, and Sherry is the Senior Scientific Data Consultant at the Charles L. Brown Science and Engineering Library of the University of Virginia. The full schedule of presentations at the CNI Fall 2011 Membership meeting can be found on its website:

CNI Fall 2011 Membership meeting schedule

The DMPTool just added support for several NSF directorates and divisions, including:

• Astronomical Sciences division (AST)
• Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS)
• Chemistry division (CHE)
• Computer and Information Science and Engineering directorate (CISE)
• Education and Human Resources directorate (EHR)

A data management planning workshop will be held as part of the International Digital Curation Conference 2011 in Bristol UK on December 5, 2011. The workshop will highlight two tools for data management planning: the DMP Online, hosted by the Digital Curation Centre (UK), and the DMPTool. Presenters include:

• DMP Online: Martin Donnelly (University of Edinburgh), Sarah Jones (University of
  Glasgow), Adrian Richardson (University of Edinburgh)
• DMPTool: Sherry Lake (University of Virginia), Bill Michener (DataONE at University of New Mexico), Sarah Shreeves (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

The workshop agenda is available on the conference website: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/webfm_send/573

and information on the IDCC11 conference are available at:
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc11

A webinar on “Data Management Planning and Execution” will be held on on December 15, 2011, hosted by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). More information available on the XSEDE website:
https://www.xsede.org/web/xup/course-calendar/-/training/class/19

Data Management Planning and Execution
December 15, 2011
1 p.m. – 3 p.m. (CT)
J.J. Pickle Research Campus
ROC 1.603
10100 Burnet Rd.
Austin, TX 78758

Audience : This course is designed for researchers, faculty, graduate and undergrad students conducting research that involves generation of digital data.

Description: This course will introduce best practices in data management, both before and after the generation of research data, helping researchers meet the requirements of government funding agencies with regard to data management and open access, improve the efficiency of the research process, and aid the long-term preservation and reuse of digital data. We will briefly describe the resources in XSEDE that are most relevant to the practice of data management, and show how the hierarchy of storage resources common across XSEDE SPs facilitates management of research data.

This course will be webcast and will not include any “hands-on” sessions.

Please submit any questions you may have via the Consulting section of the XSEDE User Portal.

The White House Office of Science and Technology has issued two Requests for Information in the Federal Register on November 4, 2011:

• Request for Information: Public Access to Digital Data Resulting From Federally Funded Scientific Research
  • Comments are due by January 12, 2012.
  • In accordance with Section 103(b)(6) of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 (ACRA; Pub. L. 111-358), this Request for Information (RFI) offers the opportunity for interested individuals and organizations to provide recommendations on approaches for ensuring long-term stewardship and encouraging broad public access to unclassified digital data that result from federally funded scientific research. The public input provided through this Notice will inform deliberations of the National Science and Technology Council’s Interagency Working Group on Digital Data.
  • Specific questions and comments should be directed by e-mail to DigitalData@OSTP.gov
• Request for Information: Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications Resulting From Federally Funded Research
  • Comments are due by January 2, 2012.
  • In accordance with Section 103(b)(6) of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 (ACRA; Pub. L. 111-358), this Request for Information (RFI) offers the opportunity for interested individuals and organizations to provide recommendations on approaches for ensuring long-term stewardship and broad public access to the peer-reviewed scholarly publications that result from federally funded scientific research. The public input provided through this Notice will inform deliberations of the National Science and Technology Council’s Task Force on Public Access to Scholarly Publications.
  • Specific questions and comments on the should be directed by e-mail to PublicAccess@OSTP.gov

Additional OSTP Public Access Policy Updates are available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/03/08/public-access-policy-update

Additional information about the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) is posted at http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/nstc/about

Additional information about the Office of Science and Technology Policy is posted at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/about

The DMPTool now supports the data management requirements of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in Palo Alto CA “seeks to advance environmental conservation and scientific research around the world and improve the quality of life in the San Francisco Bay Area.” The foundation provides grants to researchers at universities, hospitals, non-governmental and non-profit organizations. (It should be noted that they do not accept unsolicited proposals.) Grants from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation have required data management plans since 2008.