 Hi, my name is John Chidaki. I'm from the California Digital Library and I'm here again to just discuss the DMP tool project My colleague Stephanie Sims was not able to make it today But we wanted to bring this up at J-ROS because we thought it was applicable from a shared infrastructure perspective As you may or may not know The DMP tool is a very lightweight easy to use tool for researchers to use when they are crafting their data management plans So data management plans are the thing in the grants that people have to fill out to make sure that the funder knows that they're going to take Care of the research data that's created Libraries and data librarians that get involved in this process and the DMP tool helps the librarians as well as the researchers Answer the questions in the way that the funder wants them to and make sure that they're compliant with the funder guidelines It's a really great tool over 200 institutions use it worldwide And it's something that adds a lot of value not just to the researcher community, but also to the The library community because it creates a connection between libraries and researchers rate as they're going through their grant process It's a very simple interface As you can see here, there are templates for multiple funders And it's a simple dashboard and it's a wizzy wig kind of interface where you answer questions and at the end of it A pdf is is created that you can include or a word document that you can include in your grant proposal So the the question is like why am I bringing this up today? You know, this is an open infrastructure project, but one of the reasons why I'm bringing it up is because Of what we did with dmp tool So just as you may or may not know about dmp tool You may or may not know about dmp online, which is almost an identical project That was that is run out of the digital curation center in the uk That is doing data management plans for For researchers, but with a little bit of a european focus or uk focus And we knew about this project from the beginning and there were there were reasons why we Originally set off on our own path and both projects were continued But over time We both projects found that we were underfunded under resourced And so why I wanted to bring this up today is because we are a success story in the sense that we have decided to or we did decide to merge our our teams and merge our code base why have two two scholarly communications infrastructure Tools that do exactly the same thing but with different spelling For uk and us english Why not have funder templates that are global instead of just us and canadian focused versus European focused why not have a single code base that then other people Around the world can can jump in and get involved and add their funder templates as well And so that's what we did. We have a new Code base that we call roadmap that is now powering the both the dmp tool and the dmp online platform and is the platform that is being used for other Countries or other jurisdictions dmp Helper type products such as the dmp assistant in canada and One in portugal one in brazil one in estonia Uh, so it has become a truly a global international effort And it's also meant that because of that we can start thinking about the progression of the subject area at large Instead of focusing on how to make the best whizzy wig We can start talking about how to make the best data management plans And so we have joined forces with international broad groups like rda and data site to say Why can't we think now that we have a single platform a single technology? Why can't we start thinking about what the future of dmp's as a unit can be And how we could affect change at a at a much broader scale than we could when we had our individual individual projects And so that's it The point of this is to showcase that when you come together when you have joint roadmaps when you start working together That you can create synergies and you can create value and you can start focusing on really matters to your to your product