Data Management Plan Database

A Data Management Plan (DMP) describes how you will manage, store, secure, document, and share research data. DMPs can vary broadly across disciplines, methodologies, and data types. DMPs are a growing requirement for grants, and can also guide data practices for individuals and teams. DMP Assistant is a free webtool that guides you through drafting your DMP and the easiest way to start building a DMP.

Our database gathers examples from across the world including DMPs from the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Qualitative DMP Competition, DataOne, Digital Curation Centre, Liber, the Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance, and UC San Diego Research Data Curation into one searchable, open-access platform.

Download the amalgamated dataset: https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/SDITUG

Project Team: Rebeca Gaston Jothyraj (RDM Assistant - 2024), Shrey Acharya (RDM Assistant - 2023), Sarthak Behal (RDM Assistant 2022-23), Danica Evering and Isaac Pratt (RDM Specialists), Debbie Lawlor (Developer).

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Afro-Descendant Movements and Territories of Life in Urban Spaces: Examples from Brazil

Original Source

University of Massachusetts Amherst; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance

This DMP investigates Afro-descendant movement in Latin America and subsequent self-determined collectives using participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and participatory workshops.

An Annotated Digital Edition of Franz Boas’s Pioneering Ethnography

Original Source

Bard Graduate Center; Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP aims to collect digitized materials, fonts, search algorithms, and software. The digitized materials will consist of historical and recent photographs, newspaper clippings, sound recordings, video clips, interviews, published essays, narratives, and songs.

Clinical data from human research participants

Original Source

National Institute on Aging (NIA); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance

This Data Management Plan example outlines a project based on electronic health record (EHR) data for approximately 15,000 patients in a primary care clinic. Researchers will be reviewing demographic data, as well as data from medical history, laboratory results, medications, physical and cognitive exams. Further, they will conduct cognitive assessments of a subset of 40 individuals.

Doctoral Dissertation Research: AnAgent-Based Model of Population Changes in a Vulnerable Coastal Environment

Original Source

Louisiana State University; Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP aims to collect coastal hazard data, GIS shape files and data, social-economic data, and demographic data. This data will be used for investigating population changes in a vulnerable coastal environment.

Human genomic data

Original Source

National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Human Genome Research Institute Home (NHGRI)

This is a sample data management plan from the NIH, intended for submission to the NHGRI, that provides an outline for a project involving human genomic and clinical data.

Human Survey Data

Original Source

National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

This data management plan from the NIH, intended for submission to the NICHD, details a plan to collect and preserve interview data and time diaries from children and their caregivers.

Signature for Pain Recovery IN Teens (SPRINT)

Original Source

Stanford University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance

This DMP aims to collect patient clinical data in order to develop a guideline to diagnose teens suffering from MSK pain.

Study on Mhealth and Reproductive Health in Teens

Original Source

Harvard University

This DMP aims to collect survey data in pdf, video, and image formats. This data will be collected for the SMART trial, in efforts to study mental and reproductive health in teens.

Survey and Interview Example

Original Source

National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)

This is an example of a data management plan from the NIH, intended to collect anthropologic and public policy data from surveys and interviews.