Data Management Plans are about to become mandatory for many tri-agency funding opportunities.  A key tool to assist with this new requirement is the Data Management Plan (DMP) Assistant.  The DMP Assistant is a national, online, bilingual data management planning tool developed by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada to assist researchers in preparing data management plans (DMPs).

In this hands-on workshop staff from the VIU Library and VIU’s SRCA office will discuss how the DMP Assistant works and guide you through the process so that you can make your own data management plan.  The DMP Assistant includes templates based on funding agencies and disciplines and if you’re not sure exactly what you want to do, you can set up a mock project.  The DMP Assistant platform allows you to easily share your DMP with your collaborators.  Also, we will learn about the data repositories that are available and which one might be best for your data storage needs. We will also demonstrate how to upload your data into a repository.  Bring your laptop and a research project that you would like to make a data management plan for.