"Whilst we were initially disappointed that the DCC decided to go to a subscription model for DMP online and start charging, we understood the reasons why and were pleased to see that the DCC were investing in the product for the long term.  If anything, this change in funding model made us analyse our use of the product and allowed us to see how we could develop our processes in the future using all the additional features that a subscription now brings. "

"Good research data management (RDM) requires ample coordination, organization and premeditation. One of our roles as research support staff is to provide researchers with the tools that will facilitate these actions. By using this tool, researchers will reduce the strain and time spent by researchers in managing their data. DMPonline accomplishes this by bringing together all of the funder and institutional templates under one roof."

We had a really successful DMPonline training course last week with over 40 attendees from the UK, Netherlands, Sweden and Portugal. Thank you all so much for the contributions. In the blog debrief, you will see a status update on the conditional questions and machine-actionable DMP features. We also summarise your questions and ideas. Some of these have been raised as tickets already and others are listed with questions to help us scope and prioritise the work.

"As well as being a useful tool for us and researchers, DMPonline connects us to a supportive RDM community. I recently attended an RDM 'unconference' organised by DCC where I met with a number of colleagues to discuss issues as varied as using tools to automate data gathering, the problems of storing sensitive data, and the creation of an EU wide data management infrastructure." 

One of our brand new features which we deployed to DMPonline in April 2020 is the ability to create conditional questions. This feature was requested via our Amsterdam user group meeting in 2019 and we did further consultation and demos at the London user group before rollout.  Read more about it in the blog.