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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The project involves staging a meeting with researchers in the discipline, with a goal that includes the development of plans for future research. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>required.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for any thoughts, and if there might be a better place to ask this question.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Aletia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:gray'>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br></span><i><span style='color:gray'>Aletia Morgan</span></i><i><span style='font-family:cal;color:gray'><br></span></i><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:cal;color:gray'>Research Application Designer<br></span></i><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:gray'>Office of the Vice President for Research <br> and Graduate & Professional Education<br>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey<br>715 CoRE Building, Busch Campus<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:gray'>ahmorgan@vpr.rutgers.edu<br>732-445-3344<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div></body></html>