Why the Belmont Forum requires Data Management Plans (DMPs) The Belmont Forum supports international transdisciplinary research with the goal of providing knowledge for understanding, mitigating and adapting to global environmental change. To meet this challenge, the Belmont Forum emphasizes open sharing of research data to stimulate new approaches to the collection, analysis, validation and ...

Oct 3, 2019 · Download: Outline_Data_Skills_Curricula_Framework.pdf Description: The recommended core modules are designed to enhance skills of domain scientists specifically to make data handling more efficient, research more reproducible and data more shareable – including visualisations for end-users.

A full Data and Digital Outputs Management Plan for an awarded Belmont Forum project is a living, actively updated document that describes the data management life cycle for the data and other digital outputs to be collected, reused, processed, and/or generated. As part of making research data open by default, findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR), the Plan should elaborate ...

Dec 20, 2017 · The Belmont Forum endorsed a Data Skills Curricula Framework to enhance information management skills for data-intensive science at its annual Plenary Meeting held in November. The Framework was de…

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The survey highlights users’ perceptions of the term “open data,” expectations of infrastructure functionalities, and barriers and enablers for the sharing of data. The information in this presentation helped drive Implementation Phase activities aimed at acculturating the research community to data sharing practices.

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Belmont Forum Data Management Plan template (to be addressed in the Project Description) 1. What types of data, samples, physical collections, software, curriculum materials, and other materials will be collected, processed and/or generated in the course of the project? 2. Which standards will be used for data and metadata format and content? Where existing standards are absent or deemed ...