IDCC26: Workshop 7 – Evolving data management plans

📅 Date: 16 February 2026
📍 Venue: Esplanade Zagreb Hotel, Croatia
💷 Fee: Free (registration required)
👉 Register: Click here

Workshop Description

Effective management of research data including methods, workflows, and code is essential for ensuring research quality, ethical practice, and the FAIR principles that enable long‑term reuse. Although the Data Management Plan (DMP) is the primary instrument intended to support these aims, its current form-based implementation often functions as a compliance requirement rather than a mechanism that meaningfully improves practice. We think that DMPs should be much more than that, not just serving as an active, dynamically updated record of the research project but also including smart functionality and integrating with the other tools we use to manage our research.

In this half-day workshop, held as part of IDDC26, we aim to bring together a diverse group of research professionals including data stewards, librarians, research technicians and repository managers to facilitate knowledge exchange and collaborative idea generation around current and future enhancements to the functionality and utility of DMPs.  

We invite participants to contribute a lightning talk highlighting revolutionary or highly effective tools and approaches they have used or developed for data management planning or research data management. This is a great opportunity to share practical experiences and inspire others during the session.

Target Audience

This workshop is intended for anyone working in scientific research or involved in planning, managing, documenting, curating, and sharing research outputs, including:

• Researchers in all disciplines and at all career stages
• Data stewards, data managers, and other research support professionals
• Data librarians
• Research technicians
• Research software developers
• Repository managers and other data curation professionals
• Research funders and policymakers
• Other research data professionals

Draft Agenda

This is a draft agenda for the workshop, timings might changed based on the number of lightning talks submitted.

• 13:00 – 13:15: Introductions ​
• 13:15 – 13:35: Introduction and Background to PSDI​
• 13:35 – 14:25: Focus Group Activity: What do we need DMPsto do?​
• 14:25 – 14:35: Talks: Effective tools and new developments​
• 14:35 – 14:50: Coffee Break​
• 14:50 – 15:00: Talks: Smart, Integrated, Active, Useful!​
• 15:00 –15:40: Focus Group Activity: Visions for the future​
• 15:40–15:55: Feedback from Focus Groups & GroupDiscussion​
• 15:55–16:00: Wrap up and Next Steps​