This document summarizes work on developing machine-actionable data management plans (DMPs). It discusses a workshop at CERN where participants from different fields and countries explored how to make DMPs more active and enable data to be exploited over the long term. Key points included identifying use cases, understanding researcher needs, and prioritizing interoperability, persistent identifiers, capacity planning, and increasing data discovery and reuse. Next steps include developing pilot projects to test machine-actionable DMPs in practice.

1. Machine-actionable DMPs:
a review of recent work
Sarah Jones | Digital Curation Centre | sarah.jones@glasgow.ac.uk
Stephanie Simms | California Digital Library | stephanie.simms@ucop.edu
Daniel Mietchen | National Institutes of Health | daniel.mietchen@nih.gov
Tomasz Miksa| TU Wien | tmiksa@sba-research.org
#ActiveDMPs

2. By Josiah Martin public domain

3. Planning &
administration
Create, analyse,
manage data
Publishing & reuse
• DMP on periphery
• Often done at grant stage and
not looked at again
• Opportunities to (re)use
information being missed
• Disconnected & unlinked

4. RDA/US Data Share Fellowship
• Reviewed existing work on active DMPs
• Identified gaps and priorities
• Presenting ideas at various fora
www.slideshare.net/StephanieSimms/
making-dmps-actionable-and-public

5. CERN Active DMPs workshop
• 3 day workshop in June 2016
• Consider DMPs in different disciplines, countries, funders
• Identify issues and how to get things moving
• Aim to develop roadmap to
– Change the way that funders expect DMPs to be produced
– Ensure DMPs - are created, evaluated, monitored – to enable data to be
exploited immediately and over the long term
– Support (EU and other) Data Principles
https://indico.cern.ch/event/520120

6. Discussion points at CERN
• Understand how DMPs can help identify synergies
across projects and disciplines
• DMPs should facilitate researchers’ work and act as
a discovery tool
• Active data management planning can deal with the
change of plans
• Role of DMP in encouraging dialogue between
funders, service providers, and scientists
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ulZv_
HQy1vLw2srQE2jtT3RpzD_wQwdqHXY80hdqcRU/edit#

7. Actions from CERN meeting
• Run more events!
• Collect concrete use cases
• Contact funders to understand their needs
• Identify benefits to data creators / funders / society
• Try to re-use existing standards/mechanisms
• Make a series of good DMPs public

8. 47 participants from 16 countries
• Funders
• Developers
• Librarians
• Service providers
• Researchers
Understand research workflows
Develop use cases for maDMPs
Set priorities for future work
www.dcc.ac.uk/events/workshops/
postcard-future-tools-and-services-
perfect-dmp-world
Utopia workshop

10. Uses cases and prioritisation
• Interoperability with research systems
• Institutional perspective
• Repository use cases
• Evaluation & monitoring
• Leveraging PIDs

11. maDMP priority areas
• Common standards and protocols
• Leveraging PIDs for automatic reporting etc
• Capacity planning (institutional & data centre)
• Increasing data discovery & reuse
• Supporting evaluation & monitoring
• Share/publish/deposit DMPs

12. White paper for comments
• Share your needs
• Help us iterate
• Provide your time,
ideas, resources to
help pilot work
http://riojournal.com/
articles.php?id=13086

13. From Flickr by Ethan Lofton
CC-BY 2.0

14. Next steps: maDMP pilots
From Flickr by Allen, CC BY 2.0