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).

Data Management Plan Database

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University of British Columbia
This DMP aims to collect interviews, videos, transcripts, and word documents. This data will be used for the purpose of interviewing nursing librarians from CARL to understand what they learned from COVID-19 and their thoughts about academic support post-pandemic.
Newcastle University
This DMP predicts to collect spectrograms, and formant frequencies. This data will be used in the aim to understand how singers’ accent and pronunciation contributes to the ways their music is received and understood.
Washington University in St. Louis; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data from obese mice to investigate how the nucleus accumbens, a region in the brain changes as individuals gain and lose weight.
Association for Clinical Data Management (ACDM)
This DMP was created for the Association of Clinical Data Managers, and aims to provide a template and outline for use.
University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
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 Arizona
This DMP aims to collect data for the creation of an online toolkit for managing shrub encroachment. This data entails articles, reports and other documents, questionnaires and workshop outputs.
Washington University in St. Louis; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP outlines the data management process of a human study evaluating the use of a novel drug, Ozurdex on treating Diabetic Macular Edema.
Florida State University; Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP aims to collect image and video data, metadata, code, analytic and methodological data, assessment and evaluation data, digital assets, and interpretive materials.

Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP aims to collect archaeological data expressed in a variety of open formats including, JSON, and Atom Syndication Format.

University of Glasgow, Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
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.
McMaster University
This data management plan template is designed to facilitate group collaboration among a diverse range of stakeholders, including artists, researchers, research participants, social service workers, community organizers, and community workers. It is intentionally crafted in plain language to facilitate accessibility and understanding for all parties involved. Additionally, it frames the process as conversation as opposed to a more traditional form, fostering relational approaches to interdisciplinary collaboration.
University of Nottingham
This DMP aims to collect quantitative data from 20 participants, of their Jebsen hand function test (JHFT) results. This data will aid in the assessment of hand function while wearing three different flexor tendon repair hand splints.
University of Limoges; University of Vienna (PHAIDRA)
This DMP was created for the ATHOR project which aims to develop technologies in material engineering and numerical simulations, for the modeling of refractory linings. Data to be collected includes experimental data, literature reviews, and quantitative model results.
University of Leuven
This DMP was created for the ATLAS project which aims to explore autonomous intraluminal surgery. The data collected includes CBCT data, Pre-operative CT or MRI volumetric dataset, optical tracking data, images, sensor data, motor data, ultrasound data, and a virtual reality multi-modality dataset.
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
This DMP was created for the audioCommons project, which aims to create an ecosystem for reuse of audio content, to encourage creativity and innovation.
University of North Carolina School of Medicine; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data obtained from wet-lab studies to investigate the immune response in the lungs in response to a bacterial infection of S. pneumoniae.
National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

This is an example of a data management plan from the NIH, intended to collect genomic data and subsequent phenotype data from cancerous mice models.

University of Vienna (PHAIDRA)
This DMP was created for the Beacon project, which aims to develop and test the tools necessary for the assessment of bentonite mechanical evolution. Data collected will include images, observational data, experimental data, and physical data.
Curtin University
This DMP aims to collect survey data and motion analysis data to investigate shoulder biomechanics during MMA training.
University of New Mexico; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect samples from the field to better understand biogenic carbonates through investigating microbes and minerals.
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
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."
UMC Utrecht
This DMP aims to collect quantitative human healthcare data from approximately 300 participants. This data will be used to provide an overview of surgical procedures for patients with clefts.
UC San Diego
This is a data management plan from UC San Diego which details a plan for the CARE platform, which will create a software tool to access various datasets from selected sources.
Texas A&M University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
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.
UC San Diego; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will collect electrophysiological, histological, and head position data from rats to investigate the firing rate of neurons among other analyses to answer the research question.
Arizona State University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will collect data from surveys "to understand the relationship between traveler behavior, mobility choices, and attitudes and values."
UC San Diego; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect video files in order to develop a video processing software algorithm.
National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
This is a sample data management plan from the NIH, intended for submission to the NIMH, presenting a proposal to collect and analyze demographic, clinical and MRI data from human subjects.
National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

This is an example of a data management plan from the NIH, intended to collect clinical, demographic, and dialysis data from research participants.

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.