The RDA Exposing DMPs Working Group presents draft recommendations for consideration.

There is growing interest in exposing data management plan content to other actors (human/machine) in the research lifecycle. By 'exposing' we mean sharing with stakeholders other than the DMP author, funding body and institutional staff who would normally have access to information on a research project or proposal. Our working group aims to identify effective, efficient and ethical practice in this area. With a new standard for expression and interchange of DMPs available, we aim to better understand user needs, and the benefits and risks to stakeholders of different modes of action.
 
The working group has run a survey, interviews, plenary session discussions and polls to inform its draft recommendations. This work has surfaced the following main themes:
- Benefits from sharing exemplars to help learn data management planning, and from the better availability of information about data management costs
- Risks of sharing sensitive information from the DMP, concerns about scooping and about changes to plans being perceived negatively
- Applying FAIR principles to DMPs. This may be to improve DMPS as tools for making research outputs FAIR. Or to aid transparency, by making DMPs FAIR as records of planning and execution.
- The need for DMPs to be machine-actionable, to enable their integration into the research workflow, and interoperability with institutional or external systems and services

There are 12 recommendations, each targeted at various stakeholders.  They cover 5 main points:
1. FAIR DMPs for FAIR data production
2. Ethical exposure of DMP content
3. Standardised metadata for DMPs
4. Controlled vocabularies in DMPs
5. Persistent identifiers in DMPs, and for DMPs

Whichever stakeholder group you identify with,  please consider the text of these (next sections below) and let us know if you find them relevant and adoptable.  Please tell us any changes you think are necessary.  Your input is vital and will feed into the final draft to be released after the RDA virtual plenary p-15.

 Please note
- Our focus is on Data Management Plans (DMPs). We do not exclude Software Management Plans (SMPs) or Data Stewardship Plans (DSPs),and have made no delineation between these. All three remain relevant to the exposure use cases of interest to the Active DMP Interest Group.

- For the purpose of these recommendations the terms ‘data management plan’ (DMP) and ‘data stewardship plan’ (DSP) have a similar meaning. We use DMP as the more widely adopted term, but recognise that DSP is a preferred term in the GO-FAIR community.

- DMPs can be ‘active’ (machine actionable - updateable, versioned, integrated, interoperable) during the life of a research project, but can also be ‘static’ snapshots of that research project, e.g. attached to a funding proposal, or publicly available in a repository or catalogue at the finalisation stage.

Please visit here - https://ql.tc/BB7kJ2  for the Exposing DMPs Survey Data.