The DMPTool is a free, open-source, online application that helps researchers create data management plans. These plans, or DMPs, are now required by many funding agencies as part of the grant proposal submission process. The DMPTool provides a click-through wizard for creating a DMP that complies with funder requirements. It also has direct links to funder websites, help text for answering questions, and resources for best practices surrounding data management.
The DMPTool is based on the DMPRoadmap open source project. DMPRoadmap is being collaboratively developed by members of the University of California Curation Center (UC3), the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and contributions from the community.
Click here for the latest [releases].(https://github.com/CDLUC3/dmptool/releases/)
Issues should be reported here on Github Issues Please be advised though that we can only provide limited support for your local installations. Issues will be triaged by our team and if applicable will be moved/opened in the DMPRoadmap repository.
See the Translations Guide
Roadmap is a Ruby on Rails application and you will need to have:
If you would like to install and run this application, we encourage you to start with a basic installation of DMPRoadmap. Follow the instructions and determine if the functionality it provides meets your requirements.
If the basic DMPRoadmap system does not provide the functionality you require please review the list of customizations that we have made below. If our additional changes do not meet your needs, you are encouraged to fork the DMPRoadmap codebase and customize it to your needs. If you do customize it please contact the DMPRoadmap team to let the community know about the additional functionality you plan to offer. It may be useful to the larger community.
If DMPTool meets your organization's needs, you should install it following the DMPRoadmap installation instructions and then perform the folowing tasks:
app/assets/images/homepage/
. Each image has 3 sizes geared towards various device resolutions/format (e.g. smart phone). Follow the image sizes in the provided examples for your images. You must also retain the file names as the app/assets/stylesheets/dmptool/blocks/_home_welcome.scss
references them by nameconfig.rss
value in config/application.rb
with the address of your blog's RSS feed.app/assets/stylesheets/dmptool/**/*.scss
directly. Do not make changes to the other stylesheets as they are managed as part of the DMPRoadmap project.app/views/branded/static_pages/
so that they are appropriate for your installation.config/application.rb
and then add your organization's entity id (found in your Shib SP's list of registered IdPs) within the UI. Then log out and log back in via your institution's credentials to test that things are working properly. Note that the DMPTool only allows users to authenticate via Shibboleth if the organization is regsitered within the system (meaning that it appears in the application's orgs
table)The following is a list of customizations that we have made to the base DMPRoadmap codebase:
app/views/branded/layouts/
.app/views/branded/static_pages
to be managed via Markdown instead of HTML. Changed the content of existing pages and added new pagesapp/views/branded/shared/
subdirectory. The corresponding JS file can be found at app/javascript/dmptool/
.app/assets/stylesheets/dmptool/**/*.scss
files that gets loaded after the base DMPRoadmap stylesheetsSee the Troubleshooting Guide on the DMPRoadmap Wiki
See the Contributing Guide
The DMPTool project uses the MIT License.