From: "Cliff Lynch" <CNI-ANNOUNCE@cni.org>
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Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 12:30:30 -0400
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Subject: California Digital Library Gets NSF grant for Actionable Data
 Management Plans
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For some time a discussion of what are being called "actionable" Data 
Management Plans (DMPs) has been taking place within the Research Data 
Management community at venues like the International Data Curation 
Conference and the Research Data Alliance (RDA).

Very recently, our colleagues at the California Digital Library( CDL) 
received a 2-year National Science Foundation grant to develop support 
for this vision. This work is very important strategically, if it can 
be successfully implemented and widely adopted, as it holds the promise 
to greatly streamline funder requirements and compliance checking, as 
well as to help the research enterprise broadly to  automate an 
important part of the research data management process. 

As this project moves ahead, I look forward to sharing progress at CNI 
meetings. Note that CDL is eager to collaborate with others working in 
this area.

A little more detail from CDL is pasted below, plus additional 
pointers. 

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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Announcement: NSF grant - Making DMPs Actionable

California Digital Library (CDL) has been awarded a 2-year NSF EAGER 
grant to support active, machine-actionable data management plans 
(DMPs). The vision is to convert DMPs from a compliance exercise based 
on static text documents into a key component of a networked research 
data management ecosystem that not only facilitates, but improves the 
research process for all stakeholders.

To achieve this, the DMP Tool team, which is part of CDL's University 
of California Curation Center (UC3), will build on our existing 
partnership with the Digital Curation Centre (http://www.dcc.ac.uk). We 
also look forward to incorporating new collaborators and aligning our 
work with wider community efforts to create a future world of 
machine-actionable DMPs. 

Follow the conversation @theDMPtool #ActiveDMPs and dmptool.org. You 
can also join the active, machine-actionable DMP community (live or 
remote participation) at the RDA plenary in Montreal 
(https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-10th-plenary-joint-meeting-ig-active-data-management-plans%C2%A0ig-domain-repositories) 
and Force11 meeting in Berlin (http://force2017.org) to contribute to 
next steps.

Contact us (uc3@ucop.edu) to get involved!

Full blog post announcement: 
https://blog.dmptool.org/2017/09/18/nsf-eager-grant-for-making-dmps-actionable/