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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Wilfrid Laurier University
This DMP aims to collect survey data in order to examine the changes in the library landscape with regards to visible minority librarians. This will help the Visible Minority Librarians of Canada (ViMLoC) Network to empower librarians in this group regarding their current positions, and any future positions revolving around leadership, mentorship, and networking.
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.
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.
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.
University of Salford
This DMP aims to collect demographic, diagnoses, quantitative, and textual data in the aim to potentially provide international evidence about the vulnerabilities of individuals with PAE/FASD.
Brown University; Qualitative Data Management Plan (DMP) Competition
This is a Data Management Plan reviewing archival data from the National Public Broadcasting Archives, National Public Radio organizational records, and semi-structured interviews with non-white broadcasters and public radio employees in the USA and Australia to analyze diversity efforts in Public Radio Organizations.
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.
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.
TU Delft; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data to evaluate how people behave when placed in "moral choice situations."
Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP aims to collect 3D digital data, algorithms for shape analysis, publications, and conferences. 

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."
Newcastle University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will collect data on "audio-recordings of conversations during workshops", observational notes, summary of main points, and videos generated by study participants to answer the research question.
University of Minnesota
This DMP aims to collect software application code documentation and journal articles for the community workbench for studying enlightenment media.
University of Texas at Austin
This DMP is a sample in the linguistics field, specifically pertaining to acoustic phonetics. The data collected will be audio recordings, Praat text grid files, Praat scripts, and measurement data.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data from structured interviews and secondary data from COVID-19 hospitalizations and social distancing mobilization in Florida county health departments. This will be done in an attempt to understand "the roles and patterns of institutional collaborative mechanisms across scale and functions that are used to overcome collective action dilemmas produced by the COVID-19 pandemic."
University of Texas at San Antonio; Qualitative Data Management Plan (DMP) Competition
This DMP collects histories and experiences of members of the Hispanic community in San Antonia during COVID-19.
Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP aims to collect survey data, digital scans, transcriptions, and fieldnotes from observations.

Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP is curated to document 20 – 25 digital stories depicting Detroit’s ethnic histories. The data collected will include a combination of digital images, audio and video.

Toronto Metropolitan University
This DMP aims to collect press reports, box office records, films, interviews, and MAXQDA files. The goal of the project is to study cultural diversity in film festivals.
Natural Justice; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data on Indigenous experiences with climate change and the licensing behind data produced by these communities.
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; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
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; Western University, Queen's University
This is an example data management plan from the Alliance which aims to create a database of digital products from the Canadian Census of Population. The database includes text base data collected from Statistics Canada.
Digital Research Alliance of Canada; Cape Breton University

This example data management plan from the Alliance intended to analyze the availability and usage of affordable rental housing. The project requires the collection of various forms of numeric, audio-visual and text-based data collected from a variety of sources such as surveys, focus groups etc.

Digital Research Alliance of Canada; University of Saskatchewan
This DMP describes a plan for a study to collect data from academic profile websites--Google Scholar, Citations, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and ORCID--to understand the presence of librarian researchers on those platforms. Data collected for analysis includes textual and numerical data across different platforms and translated in to SPSS for analysis.
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.
HarassMap (EGY); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will collect data on reports and incidences of sexual harassment in Egypt via crowdsourced reports, traditional field data, and social media conversations to develop a map documenting locations and instances of sexual harassment.