10.5281/zenodo.1266211
https://zenodo.org/records/1266211
oai:zenodo.org:1266211
Tomasz Miksa
Tomasz Miksa
0000-0002-4929-7875
TU Wien
Peter Neish
Peter Neish
Digital Scholarship, Research and Collections The University of Melbourne,
Paul Walk
Paul Walk
Antleaf Ltd.
Andreas Rauber
Andreas Rauber
TU Wien
Defining requirements for machine-actionable Data Management Plans
Zenodo
2018
DMPs, maDMPs, machine-actionable, data management, rda, common data model
2018-06-04
eng
10.5281/zenodo.1266210
preprint
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Data Management Plans (DMPs) are free-form text docu-
ments describing data used and produced in research projects.
The workload and bureaucracy often associated with tradi-
tional DMPs can be reduced when they become machine-
actionable. However, there is no common denition of what
machine-actionable DMPs really are. This hinders the com-
munication between stakeholders and leads to scepticism, or
conversely to exaggerated expectations.
This paper aims to clarify what machine-actionable DMPs
are and provides examples of how involved stakeholders can
benet from them. It describes an open stakeholder con-
sultation performed by the RDA DMP Common Standards
working group. The main objective was to dene the scope
of information covered by machine-actionable DMPs and
formulate an initial set of requirements for a common data
model for machine actionable DMPs. To do this we used
methodology known from system and software requirements
engineering to collect information on how needs for infor-
mation of particular stakeholders evolve over phases of the
research data lifecycle.