[Rdap] Deciding when a Data Management Plan is not required?

[Lake, Sherry (sah)]

As for the particular question asked in this e-mail thread, maybe page 4 of the Education & Human Resources (HER) Directorate DMP guidelines (http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmpdocs/ehr.pdf)  will help. This section of the guidelines list examples for EHR proposals to follow:

1. A proposal for a workshop that will result in a workshop report.
a. The DMP could consist of a statement to the effect that a workshop report will be produced and disseminated, e.g., via a website, publication in a journal, or other means.

Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) is a little clearer on when a DMP is required. The DMP requiremnts is part 3 of the section "Specification for Projects that Develop Digital Products". So I assume, for IMLS, no digital products, no DMP required.

I wish the NSF would give a little more guidance as to what they want in a DMP. They could then tell us which proposals do not require one. I think looking at the specific solicitation should have that information, like Melissa said.

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From: rdap-bounces at asis.org [mailto:rdap-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of John Graybeal
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 12:56 AM
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Subject: Re: [Rdap] Deciding when a Data Management Plan is not required?

Here's the way I think about this kind of thing:

1) You have done useful work by the time you finish (presumably).
2) To the extent the useful work was based on discovered, collected, observed, or otherwise modeled data, the conclusions are likely to depend on the those inputs.
3) If someone wants to evaluate your conclusions in light of your inputs, would they be able to do that?

If the basis is entirely on other papers, then those would presumably be cited in the report.  If it is strictly a thought process of a single group, then the report is the data.

But if the basis is on brainstorming ideas from multiple groups, or having people in the meeting each generate their own inputs, which are then collated and massaged, or it relied on results that were on-line and might be different tomorrow -- then it would be a 'best practice' to maintain the original raw materials in a repository (say the web site where your work is managed, if any) that others could inspect.  (They might validate your group's wisdom, or find great wisdom that your group missed.)  In these cases, I would say a very short Data Management Plan would be worth including.

john

On Apr 21, 2011, at 13:43, Aletia Morgan wrote:


Greetings - I'm working with PIs on reviewing DMP documents that are part of NSF proposals, and I am wondering about whether a DMP is needed.

The project involves staging a meeting with researchers in the discipline, with a goal that includes the development of plans for future research.

Obviously, there's no experimental data here, and the output is essentially a narrative document.  The PI asserts that "This proposal does not seek to collect environmental data. A data management plan is not
required."

If a conference is being organized, notes are taken, documents are being written.   Is there a need to say how these records will be developed and preserved?  Or am I being too compulsive!

Thanks for any thoughts, and if there might be a better place to ask this question.

Regards,
Aletia

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