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: 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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University of Tennessee at Knoxville

This DMP aims to collect data on the supply and demand for additive manufacturing spare parts in order to optimize the supply chain network.

University of Glasgow

This data management plan from the University of Glasgow aims to build two online atlases of Scots syntactic features with a "Google Maps" style interface with audio recordings and geospatial, sociological and biographical material.

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

This project aims to ascertain whether "four approaches" can "improve the education and degree completion of low-income students at public STEM-focused Hispanic serving institutions."

Texas A&M University

This DMP outlines a plan for experimental testing, characterization, and simulation data for experiments with nickel-titanium shape memory alloys using a laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing process. This includes thermal and precipitates evolution physics based modelling.

Arizona State University

This DMP will collect data from surveys "to understand the relationship between traveler behavior, mobility choices, and attitudes and values."

Digital Research Alliance of Canada; University of Alberta

This is an example data management plan from the Alliance which intends to study the historical and cultural influence of Belgian and French immigrants to the Canadian Prairies. The data collected for analysis include text-based, image and geographical data.

University Lumiere Lyon 2

This DMP aims to collect data to understand "educational actors cooperate or compete around the definition of knowledge that is worthy of circulation in an education dialogue."

Digital Research Alliance of Canada; Simon Fraser University

This sample data management plan from the Alliance aims to create a comprehensive digital database of women's contributions to print culture from 1750 to 1830. It uses data collected from a variety of digital databases and print bibliographies and uses a metadata schema developed by the authors.

Digital Research Alliance of Canada; Université de Montréal

This is an example data management plan from the Alliance which describes a fictional research project which involves the collection of soundscapes from monasteries. The fictional researcher intends to collect audio data (WAV files) in order to facilitate analysis.

Canadian Research Data Centre Network
This is a template DMP for researchers conducting statistics based research for Statistics Canada for use in external analyses and applications.
Canadian Research Data Centre Network
This is a template DMP for researchers conducting statistics based research for Statistics Canada.
University of Waterloo
This DMP aims to collect text, binary (ASCII, binary), images, audio, etc. data to develop advanced research computing frameworks and infrastructure for application in various fields like quantum chemistry, biochemistry, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
Université du Québec à Montréal
This is a template DMP for researchers conducting historical research within the humanities utilizing analog research data.
University of Alberta
This is a template DMP for arts-based research intending for projects that will utilize artistic research methods.
Cégep de Sherbrooke
This DMP aims to collect digital, tabular, and graphic data on plastic production parameters, environmental conditions, and inspectional measures among other factors to optimize the industrial extrusion process.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

This DMP aims to collect data in order "to develop a system to detect clouds in real time with high accuracy by implementing an intelligent low-cost Cloud Motion Vector System (CMVS) design."

University of Alabama

This DMP aims to collect data from public records and judicial proceedings to investigate and better understand the litigation process.

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This DMP will collect qualitative and quantitative information on cognitive, affective, and developmental data of human subjects to ascertain the impact financial constraints have on the academic performance of University students.

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This DMP example depicts a poor DMP and has associated comments explaining what makes it "bad" and how it can be improved.

Cornell University

This DMP aims to collect spectral radiance data from various illumination sources to create a field spectroscopy database.

California State Polytechnic University

This project will collect data from 60 interviews with Engineering Faculty to determine what assumptions they hold about students.

Delft University of Technology

This is a data management plan from LIBER regarding the IPER-MAN project which intends to study sources of noise in aeroacoustics to design and prototype wind tunnel inserts.

University of Bristol

This data management plan from the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of Bristol aims to create a series of mini-documentaries, a 30m documentary and a photo exhibition on Buddhist Cosmology.

Temple University

This DMP aims to collect audio recordings, surveys, and observations to revitalize and endangered language.

Purdue University System

This DMP aims to collect data on wastewater pharmaceutical concentration as well as pH, flow rate, solar intensity, and exposure time to better understand the degradation efficiency of these drugs.

University of Glasgow

This data management plan from the University of Glasgow for the "Mapping Metaphor" project aims to create a website and a mobile application with worksheets, lesson plans, interactive activities and data tailored for use by secondary school pupils and others.

UC San Diego

This data management plan is from Allan Snavely's proposal to the Strategic Technologies for Cyberinfrastructure (STCI) program.

University of Athens

This is a data management plan from LIBER for the RAWFIE initiative which intends to design a platform to conduct and monitor experiments in the domain of the Internet of Things, among others.

Purdue University

This DMP aims to collect data on "student outcomes related to learning, application of professional competencies, design and project management tool use, final product quality, and satisfaction with course" to "guide the development" of Engineering Technology Capstone courses.

UC San Diego

This is a sample data management plan from UC San Diego which details a proposal to conduct research on nanoelectronics.