Integrating Machine Actionable Data Management and Sharing Plans (maDMSP) into Campus-Based Open Research and Repository Workflows: A Case Study from the University of Colorado Boulder

Data Management and Sharing Plans (DMSPs) are now a well-established part of the modern scholarly ecosystem, as evidenced by the fact that they are a required component of grant applications at major funding agencies. Despite their widespread use, DMSPs are currently limited by the fact that they are generally intended solely for human audiences, and are rarely machine readable or actionable. As a result, while DMSPs communicate valuable data management and project information to human stakeholders, they are effectively "black boxes" with respect to the various digital systems embedded in the infrastructure of Open Science, including digital data repositories. This presentation explores an effort to better-understand, develop, and implement "next-generation" DMSPs, known as Machine-Actionable Data Management and Sharing Plans (maDMSPs), at the University of Colorado Boulder, as part of a multi-institution grant led by the California Digital Library (CDL) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). We discuss local use cases for maDMSPs, our project activities, and the challenges we encountered in integrating maDMSPs into campus workflows. We also explore the implications of maDMSPs for the University of Colorado's institutional repository, and open repositories more generally.