Integrating and Automating the Data Stewardship Wizard (DSW) for UKCEH

Thomas Zwagerman

Context: What is DSW?

• Researchers can fill in online questionnaire about their research project
• A Data Management Plan (DMP) can then be generated for different funders

Questionnaire

Export

Context: Why DSW for UKCEH?

• Replace outdated Word Document approach to DMPs
• Give researchers better support to make their outputs Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR)
• Gain insight into research outputs (datasets, software) generated
• Make everyone’s life easier & improve DMP quality

Automation and Integration

• Wrap DSW’s well-documented API into an R package: dmp-automation
• Create a Shiny application for monitoring: dmp-dashboard

Create and Auto-fill Questionnaires

Setting up Shiny Dashboard

Impacts

• All ongoing and new projects migrated to DSW
• Reducing duplicated effort for Researchers & Data Stewardship team
• Better insight into research outputs created by UKCEH
• Continuous feedback through Github issues