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).

Data Management Plan Database

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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 Sheffield

This is an annotated DMP template for a Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)grant containing guidance text produced by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and the University of Sheffield Library.

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 fictional data management plan focuses on caring for mixed methods research through survey data, interviews, and focus groups. For the purposes of training, this DMP assumes data collected by the study will not be sensitive, and that participants have consented for their de-identified information to be deposited into a data repository in support of preservation and open research.

Leiden University

This is a DMP template for researchers at Leiden University, The Netherlands. It has a checkbox format instead of a paragraph format which could be useful for certain researchers.

University of Saskatchewan
This is a template DMP for research project utilizing technology and/or software for application in healthcare and medicine.
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.
University of Calgary
This is a template DMP for use in systematic review projects in any field.
University of Alberta
This is a template DMP for mixed-methods research where data is obtained from surveys and qualitative interviews/focus groups.
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.
Rice University

This is a set of sample DMPs produced by the Rice Research Data Management Team containing a preamble explaining recommended content and two Sample DMPs for Biosciences and Social and Behavioral Sciences.

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 Maryland, College Park

This DMP highlights how a Digital Curation Innovation Center will manage its data.

Cornell University

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

SYNYO GmbH
This DMP aims to collect data on text and data mining (TDM) laws in Europe in order to reduce barriers for researchers to use these datasets.
University of Nebraska - Lincoln

This outlines best practices to include when writing DMPs. It shares examples of good language included in DMPs to highlight the importance of specificity in describing privacy and licensing, procedures, roles and responsibilities, data sharing, metadata, citation, and long-term archiving. It also gives examples of bad language in DMPs to demonstrate poor data management strategies.

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.

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 Nebraska--Lincoln

This DMP will collect data to "reduce the risk of hazard material transportation, reduce crashes, improve emergency response times for unexpected events, and increase the overall safety of system workers and users."

University of Alberta
This is a DMP example for a fictional research study that will use a mixed-methods approach to collect participant data from interviews, surveys, and focus groups.
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.

University of Ottawa
This DMP aims to collect and provide empirical evidence for the impact of data usage, data citation, and use of datasets on academic communication.
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.

Delft University of Technology
This DMP aims to collect environmental, geographic, and population level data from 6 metropolitan areas to reduce space waste and optimize living area.
Caribou Biofuels, Inc

This DMP aims to collect data on the types of municipal waste generated at a University in New York and the amount of energy generated when that waste is processed through a gasifier.