A Vision for Data Management Plans in the NFDI

At present, data management plans (DMPs) are still often perceived as mere documents for funding agencies providing clarity on how research data will be handled during a funded project, but are not usually actively involved in the processes. However, they contain a great deal of information that can be shared automatically to facilitate active research data management (RDM) by providing metadata to research infrastructures and supporting communication between all involved stakeholders. This position paper brings together a number of ideas developed and collected during interdisciplinary workshops of the Data Management Planning Working Group (infra-dmp), which is part of the section Common Infrastructures of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) in Germany. We present our vision of a possible future role of DMPs, templates, and tools in the upcoming NFDI service architecture.