Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
An institutional 'host' component referring to the institutional repository (re3data ID).
- Is an instance
A 'security_and_privacy' component reused across 40 GDPR-relevant plans.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A paragraph of free-text narrative.
- Not an instance
A funder-template-level section heading without typed properties.
Editorial commentary
A DMP component is a discrete, reusable section of a Data Management Plan (DMP) corresponding to one of the logical entities modelled in the RDA DMP Common Standard — project, dataset, contributor, host, cost, or security_and_privacy, among others. Treating a plan as composed of typed components, rather than one monolithic document, is what makes fine-grained reuse possible: an institution’s standard description of its own repository can be written once as a “host” component and inserted into every plan that deposits there, and a “security_and_privacy” component built for one human-subjects study can be adapted for the next one rather than redrafted from scratch.
A research office is most likely to encounter components indirectly, through a machine-actionable DMP (maDMP) tool’s interface — most DMP-authoring platforms structure their forms around exactly these entity types even when the underlying JSON is invisible to the user. Recognising a plan’s content as components (rather than as free-standing prose) is what makes automated compliance checks possible, since a checker can validate one component type at a time.
How it differs from adjacent DMP concepts
- vs. Cost element (in DMP) — a cost element is one specific type of component (the “cost” entity); “component” is the general term covering all entity types.
- vs. RDA DMP Common Standard — the standard defines which component types exist and their required properties; a component is a populated instance inside a real plan.
References
- RDA DMP Common Standards Working Group outputs.
Also known as
DMP entity · DMP block
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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