Integrated Earth Data Applications (IEDA) Tools for Data Management Plans and Data Compliance Reporting

An important step in data stewardship is planning not only for how data will be acquired, processed and analyzed, but how data will be documented, preserved and shared. The Integrated Earth Data Applications (IEDA) Facility has developed multi-tiered web applications that assist investigators in both planning for data curation and demonstrating that their data has been made available. The IEDA Data Management Plan Tool is designed to help investigators create Data Management Plans for NSF proposals. It guides users through all relevant steps and allows them to provide relevant information about expected data types and products and select appropriate repositories for data curation. The product of the tool is a PDF that can be added to NSF proposals. A list of potential data repositories for a broad range of geoscience data types (geophysical, geochemical, climate, oceanographic, biological) is provided, but users can enter other repositories if desired. A dashboard interface allows users to manage multiple data management plans, retrieve previous versions, create new plans based on previous submissions, and link submitted plans to their funded NSF awards. A fully featured implementation of this tool is available at http://www.iedadata.org/compliance/plan. With an increasing focus on data compliance, IEDA is also developing a Data Compliance Reporting Tool. The Data Compliance Reporting Tool allows users to search for data inventoried within IEDA data systems (EarthChem and Marine Geoscience Data System) by award number and provides basic metadata and links to those data sets. In addition, links are provided to underway data acquired aboard the U.S. Academic Research Fleet (handled by the Rolling Deck to Repository Program), as well as related data that has been registered through the U.S. Antarctic Program Data Coordination Center. Future developments of this tool will include the ability for investigators to directly contribute additional information to update their Data Compliance Report.