Data Management Plans

In the beginning the DMP working group has held two surveys within ELIXIR to find out about activities surrounding data management planning in the different nodes. These showed that there is a large difference between the nodes in the level of involvement with Data Management Planning. A few of the most involved groups are bringing together their expertise now to make this available to the rest of ELIXIR.

The Working group has currently found a home in the Training Platform for ELIXIR, and has received some funding from the ELIXIR hub to execute a few of the tasks:

• We are identifying the needs for training on data management planning. Workshops will be planned to identify what training can be provided to data management professionals or people that want to become a data steward or data manager. Also we will be working on awareness of the benefits and the requirements of good data management planning in research projects (aimed at the researchers).
• We will make an index of all ELIXIR expertise that plays a role in data management and that can be important in data management planning. Starting from a collection made in ELIXIR NL, and from a software platform that had been developed in ELIXIR CZ, we are assembling this information in an expertise portal for data management planning: the Data Stewardship Wizard. We have been, and will be organizing workshops inside ELIXIR to extend the expertise that is collected. We will also be collaborating with organisations outside of ELIXIR to align these efforts with existing data management planning portals. At BioHackathon 2019 we will be present to add questions on software stewardship and create DMP's following standard funder templates.