Data Management Plans: Support package for Norwegian higher education libraries
Writing a Data Management Plan (DMP) is a useful process for creating awareness and to support good data management routines in research projects, but can also be experienced as an administrative burden. Helpful guidance is essential. Our project aims to create a comprehensive DMP support package with resources and guidance both for users and support personnel at Norwegian research institutions.
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Archiving FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) research data builds on good data managment practices already from project start. Researchers meet requirements for writing Data Managment Plans (DMP) to support good data management routines and prepare for archiving of FAIR research data for reuse in research and innovation. However, many experience it as challenging to navigate between different digital DMP tools, templates, guidance resources, and recommendations which currently are not aligned between Norwegian Universities.
Therefore, the project will facilitate creation of aligned and comprehensive DMP support services, following the recommendations from a collaborative DMP project by the University libraries in Bergen, Oslo, Trondheim and Tromsø (UB-BOTT-samarbeid om datahåndteringsplaner: kartlegging og anbefalinger - report published December 2022. An update was published April 2024). The resulting support package under open license will contain both a knowledge base for support personnel, short texts for use in digital DMP tools, and supplementing information resources for researchers and students.
The project is a collaboration between the University of Bergen, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the University of Oslo, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, PhD-On-Track and ELIXIR-NO. It is supported by one-year funding from the National Library of Norway from October 2023-2024.
Contributors: Jenny Ostrop (UiB), Illimar Rekand (UiB), Ingrid Heggland (NTNU), Svein Høier (NTNU), Lisbeth Jahren (NTNU), Live Håndlykken Kvale (UiO), Leif Longva (UiT), Ida Benedicte Juhasz (UiB, PhD-On-Track), Korbinian Bösl (UiB, ELIXIR-NO)
Would you like to contribute?
We will collect stakeholder feedback in the course of the project and ask different user groups to test our deliverables. DMP pilot templates will be based on user needs and consider the possibility to exchange information in a DMP between actors in machine-actionable form (maDMP). We expect to start to testing in spring 2024 and invite interested users and disciplines with specific needs to get in touch.
