Table 1
Comparison of the SMP templates reporting the fraction of questions assigned to each topic clusters.
Table 2
Comparison of the SMP templates reporting the fraction of questions assigned to each topic clusters.
| GENERAL CLUSTER | SUB-CLUSTER | ELIXIR | MPDL | PRESOFT | SSI | ZIB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Administrative information | Costs | 3% | 4% | 2% | 3% | |
| FAIR principles | 3% | 2% | 3% | 3% | ||
| Governance | 2% | 8% | 3% | 5% | 8% | |
| Requirements | 2% | 2% | 3% | |||
| Documentation and versioning | Documentation | 2% | 1% | 3% | 1% | |
| Quality procedures | 2% | 2% | 6% | 5% | 9% | |
| Version control | 4% | |||||
| Legal and ethical aspects | Intellectual property | 2% | 2% | |||
| Rights | 5% | 2% | 3% | 3% | 1% | |
| Performance and security | Risk analysis | 2% | 4% | |||
| Security | 5% | 4% | 1% | |||
| Testing | 5% | 1% | 1% | |||
| Preservation and sharing | Availability | 3% | ||||
| Citation | 3% | 5% | 1% | |||
| Community | 2% | 4% | 1% | |||
| Impact | 4% | 6% | 11% | 5% | ||
| Preservation | 4% | 2% | 13% | 8% | ||
| Release | 3% | 2% | 1% | 8% | 5% | |
| Repository | 9% | 4% | 2% | 8% | 4% | |
| Support | 4% | 1% | 3% | 4% | ||
| Related objects | Related items | 1% | 8% | 3% | ||
| SMP | 2% | 6% | 1% | 3% | 1% | |
| Software description | Content | 2% | 1% | 3% | 3% | |
| Deliverable | 2% | 4% | 3% | 11% | 1% | |
| Examples | 14% | 4% | 8% | |||
| Languages, formats | 4% | 1% | ||||
| Metadata | 2% | 1% | ||||
| Persistent identifiers | 2% | 6% | 4% | 5% | 5% | |
| Research field | 3% | 1% | ||||
| Road-map | 13% | 2% | 7% | |||
| Scope | 2% | 1% | 1% | |||
| State of the art | 27% | 6% | 2% | 4% | ||
| Title | 4% | 2% | 5% | 4% | ||
| Technical infrastructure | Dependencies | 8% | 21% | 3% | ||
| Development | 3% | |||||
| Environment | 2% | 2% | 3% | 3% | ||
| Number of questions | 64 | 50 | 98 | 38 | 75 |
Figure 1
Screenshots of the SMP catalogues in the services. From left above clockwise: DMPOpidor, ELIXIR, MDPL and ZIB.
Sources: DMPOpidor & PRESOFT: T. Gomez-Diaz, G. Romier, Research Software Management Plan template v3.2, PRESOFT project, April 2018, https://dmp.opidor.fr, CC-BY 4.0.ELIXIR: European Life Science Research Infrastructures, https://smw.ds-wizard.org, CC BY 4.0.
MPDL: Max Planck Digital Library, https://rdmo.mpdl.mpg.de, CC-BY-ND 4.0.ZIB: Zuse Institute Berlin: AG Digital Preservation, https://www.zib.de/index.php/digital-preservation, CC-BY-4.0.
Figure 2
Metadata model for maSMP. Boxes with coloured backgrounds correspond to the elements added for the maSMP case.
Source: Giraldo et al., 2023, p. 4.
| CNRS | Centre national de la recherche scientifique |
| DCC | Digital Curation Centre |
| DINI | German Initiative for Network Information |
| DLR | German Aerospace Center |
| DSW | Data Stewardship Wizard |
| DMP | Data Management Plan |
| FAIR | Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable |
| FAIR4RS | FAIR for Research Software |
| FAIR4RS WG | FAIR for Research Software Working Group |
| maDMP | machine-actionable DMP |
| maSMP | machine-actionable SMP |
| MPDL | Max Planck Digital Library |
| nestor | German competence network for digital long-term storage |
| NFDI | National Research Data Infrastructure |
| RDA | Research Data Alliance |
| RDM | Research Data Management |
| RMP | Reproducibility Management Plan |
| SSI | Software Sustainability Institute |
| SMP | Software Management Plan |