DMPT @ CSIRO: an update presented by Sue Cook a the DMP workshop at eResearch Australasia. October 2017

1. DMPT @ CSIRO: an update
CSIRO IMT
Sue Cook| Data Librarian
17 October 2017

2. Development process (in 2016)
Part of the Data Management Capability Enhancement (DMCEP)
project
• Feature requirements and platform evaluation
– Platform chosen for future integration into project planning system
– + relatively easy to amend guidance in rapidly moving DM environment
• Development
• Test deployment will be taken to researchers by Library
Services staff for 2 months of evaluation
• Planning facilitated user interactive feedback sessions with
real world users
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3. “Way too complex”
“Simplify.”
“Seems to be geared to help the tech people
(IMT) not really the researcher”
“I couldn't work my way through the
template, a lot of the terms I didn't
understand and could not see how they
applied to my work. ”
“In general I found the whole workflow
confusing and I’ve been thinking about this
stuff for a while.”
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4. Development process
Part of the Data Management Capability Enhancement (DMCEP)
project
• Feature requirements and platform evaluation
– Platform chosen for future integration into project planning system
– + relatively easy to amend guidance in rapidly moving DM environment
• Development
• Test deployment will be taken to researchers by Library
Services staff for 2 months of evaluation
• Planning facilitated user interactive feedback sessions with
real world users
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5. “Great to see someone trying to put some rigour around
data management in CSIRO projects. ”
“This is a very important piece of work …”
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6. New start
• Part of the Data Governance project
Objective: An integrated and interoperable data
ecosystem with established accountability for data at all
levels, a default assumption of openness, at the same
time ensuring that licensing, ethical and contractual
obligations are honoured, supported by data
management and data governance tools
• DMPT- one of a list of enabling systems
• Kick off workshop in November 2017
• Focus groups from the beginning
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7. Goal (in 2016)
Helping a research group to reach, document and communicate
data management decisions
• Live document / tool
• Metadata reuse from existing systems
• Metadata reuse to other systems
• Guided questions
• Minimum mandatory questions
• Conditional questions
Supporting and supported by data management governance and policy
procedures
Researcher driven
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8. New goal
“Develop a data management planning tool (DMPT) that assists
both local business units and the organisation as a whole to manage
data to support research integrity, reproducibility and the
management of our storage infrastructure.”
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9. New goal
“Develop a data management planning tool (DMPT) that assists
both local business units and the organisation as a whole to
manage data to support research integrity, reproducibility and the
management of our storage infrastructure.”
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10. Content Review: MoSCoW
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Must/Should Have
Could Have
Won’t Have
39 questions
22 questions

11. The CSIRO DMPT metadata ecosystem
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DMPT
O2D
People service
Project service
Ethics applications
Bowen Research
Cloud request
portal
Storage requests
Other HPC requests
DAP
Other
metadata
registries

12. Thank you
CSIRO IMT