About
The Digital Curation Centre and UC3 team at the California Digital Library have developed and delivered tools for data management planning since the advent of open data policies. DMPonline (DCC-UK) and the DMPTool (CDL-US) are now established in our national contexts as the resource for researchers seeking guidance in creating data management plans (DMPs). We've worked together from the outset to share experiences, but with the explosion of interest in both of our tools across the globe we formalised our partnership to co-develop and maintain a single open-source platform for DMPs. By working together, we can extend our reach, keep costs down, and move best practices forward, allowing us to participate in a truly global open science ecosystem.
This means that the DMPonline and DMPTool is based on open-source software managed in partnership. The benefits of working together means that we can work on together on new features, stay up to date with the latest features and trends in creation of DMPs as well as working on truly international, collaborative tool. This also means that the new features coming into the shared code base must be mutually agreed. Any type of new feature request that would not normally not feed into our shared code base is based on a contractual work for specific institution or organisation.
Each year we meet to discuss the plan for the upcoming year and collaboratively put together the development roadmap together. The product managers then meet on a weekly basis to review any upcoming work and work going ahead. Our software developers meet on a regular basis and we meet in team meeting once a week where we discuss the priorities going ahead.
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