Data management plans – the DCC DMP online tool

2. Data management plans – the DCC DMPonline tool • Funders increasingly require applicants to submit data management plans with grant applications • The DCC has created a data management planning tool, DMPonline, that enables researchers to create data management plans tailored to meet the requirements of different funders https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/

3. The Oxford DMPonline Project • We have been funded by JISC • to customize the DMPonline tool for use at Oxford, and • to integrate it with the university’s research grant administrative system • As an exercise in ‘drinking my own champagne’, I created a DMPonline data management plan to submit to the JISC with my grant application • Here is the first paragraph of that eight-page plan:

4. Some background - the JISC UMF DataFlow Project • DataBank is a generic repository, and can be used to store things other that research datasets, for example data management plans (DMPs) • A DataStage data package consists of a number of data files accompanied by an RDF metadata manifest, with a SWORD v2 wrapper Researchers, other users Researchers SWORD deposit DataBank repository DataStage file system

5. More background - RDF metadata and linked data • The principles are quite simple • All entities (classes) and their relationships (properties) are identified and defined by unique URIs • UIRs reference publicly available and commonly accepted structured vocabularies (ontologies) • each relationship is expressed as a subject – predicate – object ‘triple’ • the syntax defined by W3C’s Resource Description Framework (RDF) • Examples: cerif:Project dcterms:title “The Open Citation Project” . cerif:Project foaf:homePage <http://opencitations.net> . • Such statements can be combined into interconnected information networks (RDF graphs) – forming ‘linked data’ • the truth content of each original statement is maintained • thereby creating a web of knowledge, the Semantic Web

6. The Oxford DMPonline Project - schematic

7. The role of RDF metadata for DMPs • Our plan is thus to treat DMPs as ‘data’, to wrap them in a SWORD data package along with some RDF metadata, and store them in a searchable instance of DataBank, the Oxford DMPBank, just as we would for research data packages from DataStage • Initially, I thought we would need to develop our own CERIF-compliant ontology, DaMO, the Data Management Ontology, to permit the creation of appropriate metadata to accompany DMPs • However, I was delighted to learn that the CERIF Linked Data Task Group was in the process of mapping CERIF to RDF, and so we now wish to align with that effort, rather than re-inventing the wheel • As part of that, Silvio Peroni and I last month developed CERRO, the CERIF Roles and Relationships Ontology, and suggested some additions to the draft CERIF and SEMCERIF ontologies, as contributions to the LD effort • I hope to have opportunity to present CERRO in tomorrow’s workshop

8. What machine-readable metadata do we need for DMPs? N.B. These relate to the DMP itself, and the grant application and research project to which it relates, not to the datasets that the funded research project will create • Data Management Plan • Author, DMP title, creation date, version number, identifier (DOI or URI) • Status after funding – DMP open, open if anonymized, or confidential • Potential funding source • Funding agency, URL, funding scheme / call, submission deadline • Grant application to which DMP relates • Lead applicant, lead applicant’s department • Co-applicant, co-applicant’s department • Title, university reference number, date submitted, decision date, decision • Funded research project to which DMP relates • Principal investigator, principal investigator’s department • Co-applicant, co-applicant’s department • Project title, funding agency, grant number, ref number, start date, end date

9. DMP metadata mapping to ontologies • Data management plan fabio:DataManagementPlan • DMP author dcterms:author, cerro:author • DMP title dcterms:title • DMP creation date fabio:hasCreationDate • DMP version number prism:versionIdentifier • DMP identifier (DOI or URL) prism:doi, fabio:hasURL • DMP status after funding: pso:confidential, pso:open-access, pso:anonymized • Potential funding source cerif:Funding • Funding agency cerif:FundingAgency • Funding agency’s URL foaf:homepage • Name of funding scheme / call cerif:hasCallIdentifier, cerif:hasCallName, cerif:hasFundingProgrammeName • Submission deadline cerif:hasDeadline

10. DMP metadata mapping to ontologies (continued) • Funding application cerif:FundingApplication • Lead applicant cerro:applicant • Lead applicant’s department semcerif:Department (sub-classes of cerif:OrganizationalUnit) • Co-applicant cerro:co-applicant • Co-applicant’s department semcerif:Department • Grant application title dcterms:title • University reference number dcterms:identifier • Date submitted cerif:hasSubmissionDate • Decision date cerif:hasDecisonDate • Application status cerif:hasStatus (“accepted” / “rejected”)

11. DMP metadata mapping to ontologies (continued) • Funded research project cerif:Project • Principal investigator cerro:principal-investigator • PI’s department semcerif:Department • Co-investigator cerro:co-investigator • Co-investigator’s department semcerif:Department • Research project title cerif:hasProjectTitle • Funding agency cerif:hasFundingAgency cerif:FundingAgency • Funding agency’s grant number cerif:hasGrantNumber • University reference number dcterms:identifier • Project start date cerif:startDate • Project end date cerif:endDate • Project status cerif:hasStatus (“funded” / “unfunded”)

12. Conclusion • The creation of RDF metadata to accompany data management plans is straightforward • [Note: the mappings on the preceding slides have been updated since 10th Feb] • It uses CERRO, the new CERIF Roles and Relationships Ontology • It requires two new temporal data properties in FaBiO, the FRBR-aligned bibliographic ontology • It requires two new statuses in PSO, the Publication Status Ontology • It requires a few new classes in CERIF and SEMCERIF ontologies, that Silvio Peroni and I have suggested in the following document:

13. SPAR – Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies http://purl.org/spar/