This week Rory joins Martin Donnelly, currently serving as Manager, Funder Relations (Open Science) at the Royal Society of Chemistry!

Martin has authored a book chapter on data management planning (in Pryor (ed.) (2012) Managing Research Data, London:Facet), and was co-author of the DCC's original Checklist for a Data Management Plan. He also designed and project managed the first iterations of the DCC's DMPonline tool, and was a founder member of of the US DMPTool consortium.

In this episode, Martin and Rory discuss the DCC, and Martin's involvement as well as the DCC's inception and how it shifted into curation and management. Rory and Martin discuss the importance of proper training and advocacy, and Martin goes into his approach on promoting good data management. 

Martin and Rory also discuss the DCC's DMPonline tool, it's inception, and relevancy in today's data driven research practices. Rory enquires about the publisher's point of view and Martin explains how DMPonline and similar tools fit into the workflow process of publishing. To round off this fascinating discussion, Martin and Rory turn to both the past and future, for a comprehensive look at the developments that have revolutionised research data management and what's next in this exciting field!