Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
An institutional benchmarking study scoring 100 DMPs against the DCC rubric.
- Is an instance
A funder pilot programme requiring assessed DMPs from all renewing grantees.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A free-text comment on a DMP draft (review, not assessment).
- Not an instance
A funder's pass/fail compliance check.
Editorial commentary
DMP assessment is the structured rating of a Data Management Plan (DMP) against a published rubric, producing a comparable score across many plans rather than free-text commentary on one. Frameworks such as the Digital Curation Centre’s DMP rubric, the FAIR-Aware DMP assessment, and the Belmont Forum DMP rubric typically score each topic area (data description, storage, sharing, preservation, responsibilities) on a numeric scale, sometimes with weighted categories, so that scores can be aggregated or compared across a portfolio of grants.
Where a review is conversational and specific to one plan, assessment is comparative and often longitudinal — a research office might use it to benchmark 100 DMPs across a funding round, to track whether plan quality is improving year over year, or as the basis for a capacity-building programme aimed at the departments scoring lowest. A funder running a pilot DMP-quality initiative is more likely to require assessed (scored) plans from renewing grantees than to promise individual narrative feedback on each one.
How it differs from adjacent DMP concepts
- vs. DMP review — review is qualitative feedback on one plan; assessment produces a comparable score, usually across many plans.
- vs. DMP compliance check — a compliance check is a pass/fail structural gate; an assessment is a graded score intended to support comparison and improvement over time, not a gate.
References
- Digital Curation Centre DMP rubric; Belmont Forum DMP guidance.
Also known as
DMP rubric · DMP scoring
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