DMP ownership, data retention and PIDs

DMP ownership, data retention and PIDs

Join us for our next DMPonline User Group session as we take a deep dive into the evolving role of Data Management Plans (DMPs), not just as project documents, but as long-lived, citable, and interoperable research objects. This session will explore the increasingly important topic of DMP data retention, and how it intersects with digital preservation, privacy regulation, intellectual property, and open science. 

Questions emerging from the field

As funders and institutions push for more robust, machine-actionable DMPs, new questions are emerging, for example: 

• Who owns the DMP?  the person who created it, the Principal Investigator, the institution, the funder, or all of them? The answer to this question also impacts the work DMPonline is doing on the maDMP RDA Open API implementation, particularly the issue of who controls API-based interactions. 
• Who is responsible for maintaining and preserving the DMP throughout, and beyond, the project lifecycle? 
• Should a DMP be preserved longer than the dataset it describes? 
• If a DMP is private, should it still receive a Persistent Identifier (PID)? 
• What metadata should be exposed or restricted when assigning a PID to a DMP?

We’ll also share updates on our ongoing work to implement Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) for DMPs, aligning with international efforts like the Research Activity Identifier (RAiD), and enabling better integration of DMPs within the broader research ecosystem.

When is the user group?

Time: 13:00 - 14:00 CEST

Date: 15 September 2025

How to register?

Complete our short registration form to receive a Zoom link to join the user group.

Don’t miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding, share your perspectives, and help shape the future of research activity and digital curation.