DMPonline demo sessions are 1-hour online sessions, normally run once a month for DMPonline admin users where we go through one specific DMPonline feature, demo it and discuss its functionality. The community can ask us questions during this session to ensure you understand the functionality to its fullest. We also tend to present features that are related to the current functionality and discuss possibilities how to improve the specific functionality and are also open for feedback how the feature could be improved for your usage.  We now ask you which topics would you like us to focus on next. 

We are very pleased to announce a kick off of our collaboration between TU Delft and the Digital Curation Centre’s DMPonline aiming to integrate data management plans with TU Delft’s institutional GDPR registry system and storage allocation system. This project has been funded by SURF as impulse funding to support institutional Digital Competence Centers. While our work focuses on TU Delft in the first place, we aim to make our findings and results re-usable by many!

Read on to find out more about the specific goals of our project and also how to be kept up to date with our work.

Registration is now open for two linked events in the world of data curation: the 16th International Data Curation Conference (IDCC21) and the 17th Plenary of the Research Data Alliance, taking place during the week beginning Monday 19th April 2021.

In February we conducted our annual strategic planning meeting between DCC and CDL to discuss joint plans for the upcoming year. We were joined from DCC by: Kevin Ashley, Patricia Herterich, Magdalena Drafiova, Marta Nicholson, Ray Carrick, Angus Whyte, Diana Sisu and from CDL: John Chodacki, Marisa Strong, Catherine Nancarrow, Brian Riley and Maria Praetzellis.

This meeting was a follow up to our 2019  meeting, where we had a chance to meet for three days with our colleagues and we wanted to replicate this in our half day online meeting. This time around we had to swap to Zoom for the lovely city of Edinburgh and only met for a half day instead of three days. Nonetheless, we managed to accomplish some important high level planning discussions regarding the work of continuing our collaboration on the Roadmap codebase. In this blog post we provide you with the summary of what we discussed and share our plans for the coming months.

Over the past months our team has worked very hard bringing DMPonline up to speed with the latest Rails5 codebase. This has been a major upgrade, affecting all areas of the code and, in addition, we have a lot of users with customised pages which we needed to go through  and ensure that DMPonline will work without bugs for all of these. Although this mainly affects the back end infrastructure that is not visible to our users, it is crucial step to future proof the codebase and to get a lot of new functionality to work from which you will benefit like e.g. uploading documents (still to come - #2233). For more post-Rails5 upgrades about the upcoming features which follow have a look  here. In the release notes below I am adding a few pre-Rails5 releases that we had not previously announced to you, providing a short summary with a few highlights. If you are interested in what we are currently working on, check out the current sprint board on DMPRoadmap and the forthcoming development roadmap. You can see full release notes on the DMPRoadmap GitHub repo. We are aware of few bugs that were raised during UAT or from our customer and the list is here.