Initial thoughts on my first experience with the new NSF Data Management Plan web form:
1. Releasing this before the directorates have had a chance to populate the fields makes it confusing (drop down menus with nothing to select) and makes it feel like it was released before it was ready
2. As a reviewer I'd much prefer a free-form 2 pages with required sections. That actually provides information about an applicants knowledge and ability to satisfy the plan
3. Figuring out how to put this information into the form is substantially more work (admin burden) than writing a 2-pager
4. The only reason I can see for this system is something about compliance, and I'd love to see more meaningful expectations of following through on Data Management Plans, but it seems like without explicit plans for enforcement that this more complex, less informative, form won't accomplish that