Marrying research data and their management plans

Data management plans (DMPs) and research data repositories are essential parts of modern research. At TU Wien and TU Graz we have built up institutional research data repositories and online tools for managing DMPs. Both of these systems can help our researchers with different parts of their research data's life-cycles. However, without communication between these services, some information has to be entered multiple times across these systems which can lead to frustration and errors. We aim to improve this user experience pain point by creating a channel for sharing information between these systems. By utilizing the RDA DMP Common Standard for machine-actionable DMPs for the communication, we want to extract a general communication protocol out of the prototypes that can be implemented for other research data repositories and DMP tools as well.