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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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.
Alaska Regional Office (AKRO); NOA Fisheries
This DMP aims to collect telemetry data, digital numeric data, imagery, photographs, video, audio, database, location data, biological samples, and tabular data. This data will be used for assessing the pinnipeds inhabiting the California Current in relation to the sea lions and seals.
Alaska Regional Office (AKRO); NOA Fisheries
This DMP was created for Alaska Steller sea lion capture data. The project collects digital numeric data, imagery, photographs, video, audio, database, and tabular data.
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.
Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.); Defense Technical Information Centre
This DMP is a template for the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC).
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.
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.
USDA; National Agricultural Library
This DMP is an example provided by the National Agriculture Library.
USDA; National Agricultural Library
This DMP is an annotated example provided by the National Agriculture Library.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
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 Florida
This DMP was created for a project aimed to quantify ecosystem service development in human-made oyster reefs. The data collected is expected to consist of both observational and sampled data, along with water quality information such as salinity and temperature.
Yale University
This DMP aims to collect analytical data and documentation to evaluate the effects of relative humidity fluctuations on paper permanence.
University of Michigan
This is an engineering DMP template for NSF proposals.
Pennsylvania State University
This DMP aims to collect DNA and RNA sequencing data translated into genomes and transcriptomes, count data, phenotypic measurements, and site-specific methylation status data. This data will be used in the aim to guide epigenetic breeding in related cereal crops to enhance biotic and abiotic stress-tolerance.
Cornell University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect spectral radiance data from various illumination sources to create a field spectroscopy database.
Purdue University
This DMP aims to outline data collection for a project focused on light towers under the Wyoming Department of Transportation. The data collected will include information about climate, wind, strain, temperature, and presence of icing. Photographs and drawings are also collected.
California State University, Channel Islands
This DMP aims to collect observational data including oak tree height, Lat, log, width, and acorn count. This data will be collected by surveying Harmon Canyons Oak trees in order to understand Canopy cover and the biodiversity that lies under the cover.
Applied Research Associates
This DMP was created for a project about Implementation and Local Calibration of the MEPDG Transfer Functions in Wyoming. The DMP records the collection of observational, and material property data.
University of Georgia
This DMP aims to collect both quantitative and qualitative data. This will mainly consist of experimental and analysis data, which will be used in the efforts of investigating the genetic diversity of pantoea ananatis.
Purdue University System; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
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 California, Riverside
This DMP aims to collect both non-digital and digital data. The specific forms of data are hand-written observations, images, videos, nucleotide and protein sequences, genome sequences, genome annotations, metabolic models, metabolomics and transcriptomics data, genetic and phenotypic data, media formulations, and plant growth measurements. This data will be used in the aim to improve the economics, productivity, and sustainability of U.S. agriculture by using metabolic models to accelerate the engineering process of all crops.
Alaska Regional Office (AKRO); NOA Fisheries
This DMP was created for Platform Removal Observer Program databases. The project collects digital numeric data, imagery, photographs, video, audio, database, and tabular data.
UC San Diego
This data management plan is from Allan Snavely's proposal to the Strategic Technologies for Cyberinfrastructure (STCI) program.
Purdue University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
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; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This is a sample data management plan from UC San Diego which details a proposal to conduct research on nanoelectronics.
Caribou Biofuels, Inc; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
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.
University of Virginia; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data in the form of various file-types in order to identify areas of poor civic infrastructure and build community partnerships to address them.
Arizona State University
This DMP aims to collect seedlings establishment population data, seedlings density, statistical analyses, and text information. This data will be used in the efforts of studying seedling establishment and woody-plant encroachment in southwest rangelands.
UC San Diego; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This is a sample data management plan from UC San Diego which details a proposal to conduct research intended to improve hospital functions.
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