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

Thu May 5 09:09:16 EDT 2011

And this issue of transparency and accountability was my original
rationale for suggesting that SOME Data Management Plan be included - even
if it was "we'll back up the notes and word documents on our server".  To
me, beyond  the issue of re-use of data, the political accountability
question is probably the key driver for this whole initiative.

So I think where I'm ending up is that I will still strongly recommend
that SOME data management plan be included, but we'll see. 

Thanks again to all.

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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
John Graybeal
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 7:13 PM
To: Research Data, Access and Preservation
Subject: Re: [Rdap] Deciding when a Data Management Plan is not required?

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 <http://twitter.com/#!/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

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