An Analysis of NSF Data Management Plan Guidelines

Tian, Yubing; Bennett, Anastasia; Sutherland, Will; Ferguson, Amy; Ford, Morgan; Li, Jessica Nga-Kei; Yarbrough, Elizabeth; Finn, Megan; Acker, Amelia

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Title

An Analysis of NSF Data Management Plan Guidelines

Author(s)

• Tian, Yubing
• Bennett, Anastasia
• Sutherland, Will
• Ferguson, Amy
• Ford, Morgan
• Li, Jessica Nga-Kei
• Yarbrough, Elizabeth
• Finn, Megan
• Acker, Amelia

Issue Date

2021-03-17

Keyword(s)

• Data Management Policies
• Scientific Data
• Data Afterlives
• Data Repositories

Abstract

This poster reports on ongoing research into the National Science Foundation’s Data Management Plan guidelines and its impact on science data lifecycles. We ask two research questions (RQs): 1) How does guidance about the formulation of DMPs vary across different research areas? And 2) How has guidance about the management of data changed since the first DMP policies were published in 2011? To this end, we collected, examined, and compared 37 DMP guidance policies from 15 different research areas. We identify the following three themes during document analysis: 1) Responsibility for the future of data; 2) Data maintenance changes over time; and 3) The use of data repositories. Based on these preliminary findings we believe that National Science Foundation guidance policies represent a unique view into changes in data management practices over the last decade.

Publisher

iSchools

Type of Resource

text

Language

eng

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Copyright 2021 is held by Yubing Tian, Anastasia Bennett, Will Sutherland, Amy Ferguson, Morgan Ford, Jessica Nga-Kei Li, Elizabeth Yarbrough, Megan Finn, and Amelia Acker. Copyright permissions, when appropriate, must be obtained directly from the authors.

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