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

[John Graybeal]

Umm, I'm not sure the 1999 position will qualify as a best practices document.  It's one thing when talking about private communications.  But when talking about a publicly funded activity to establish that information, it seems worth closer consideration.

I think you could cite it and NSF might find your argument flawless.  But from an open data and public money perspective, the spirit of where we're trying to go is to naturally (and easily) use best practices to make as much information publicly visible as possible, in as useful a form as possible.  WIthin appropriate cost constraints, of course.

So that is where your personal convictions, preferences, and situation kicks in, I expect.  

john

On May 4, 2011, at 09:12, Aletia Morgan wrote:

> Heather – thank you for sharing this! 
>  
> As I’m reading this, the following point stuck out:
>  
> “What data are not included at the basic level? The Office of Management and Budget statement (1999) specifies that this definition does not include “preliminary analyses, drafts of scientific papers, plans for future research, peer reviews, or communications with colleagues.” Raw data fall into this category as “preliminary analyses.””  ENG
>  
> By this then, the project I was wondering about would not apply, since the key purpose includes “plans for future research…communication with colleagues”.  So then no DMP would be required, beyond stating that it does not apply.
>  
> Does this make sense?
>  
>  
> Thanks,
> Aletia
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Aletia Morgan
> Research Application Designer
> Office of the Vice President for Research 
>    and Graduate & Professional Education
> Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
> 715 CoRE Building, Busch Campus
> aletia.morgan at rutgers.edu
> 732-445-3344
> 
>  
> From: rdap-bounces at asis.org [mailto:rdap-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Heather Piwowar
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 3:52 PM
> To: Research Data, Access and Preservation
> Subject: Re: [Rdap] Deciding when a Data Management Plan is not required?
>  
> Hi Aletia, 
>  
> To echo the points raised by others and support your observations, I thought I'd point you to a quick-and-dirty thematic assembly of excerpts from all the NSF guidelines, in case it is helpful:
>  
> http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/revised-nsf/
>  
> Particularly the "What is considered “data”/research results covered by this policy ?"  section.
>  
> Some of the directorates are quite specific.... but others aren't.  I agree, I hope the guidelines are updated as the policies become more clear through use!
>  
> Cheers, 
> Heather
>  
> --
> Heather Piwowar
> 
> DataONE postdoc with NESCent and Dryad
>   studying research data sharing and reuse
>   remotely from Dept of Zoology, UBC, Vancouver Canada
> http://researchremix.org
> @researchremix
>  
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Aletia Morgan <ahmorgan at vpr.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> Good morning!
> I appreciate everyone’s comments – especially seeing that some of the instructions from the different directorates are different.  And Sherry, I am in full agreement with you that a lot of the written requirements are just too vague at this point – I hope that NSF will post updates in the not-too-distant future. 
>  
> I think this kind of clarification of intent will continue to be a topic for some time…
>  
> Thanks,
> Aletia
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Aletia Morgan
> Research Application Designer
> Office of the Vice President for Research 
>    and Graduate & Professional Education
> Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
> 715 CoRE Building, Busch Campus
> ahmorgan at vpr.rutgers.edu
> 732-445-3344
> 
>  
> _______________________________________________
> Rdap mailing list
> Rdap at mail.asis.org
> http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/rdap


----------------
John Graybeal    <mailto:jgraybeal at ucsd.edu>     phone: 858-534-2162
Product Manager
Ocean Observatories Initiative Cyberinfrastructure Project: http://ci.oceanobservatories.org
Marine Metadata Interoperability Project: http://marinemetadata.org







-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kunverj.com/pipermail/rdap/attachments/20110504/cf09623d/attachment.html>