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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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.
Open Anthropology Research Repository
This DMP aims to collect survey data, digital scans, transcriptions, and fieldnotes from observations.
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.
UC San Diego; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This is a data management plan from UC San Diego which details a strategy to collect and analyze data for application in the field of oceanography.
CYBECO Consortium; University of Vienna (PHAIDRA)
This DMP was created for the CYBECO project, which aims to collect data from various studies, to be used for supporting cyber insurance from a behavioral perspective.
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP looks at light pollution samples acquired by photometers followed by subsequent analysis.
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
This DMP is curated for the Changing Children’s Chance’s project. The data collected will consist of survey data, LSAC data, and other observational based data.
Rice University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
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.
Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental (CRIA); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to fill in and identify taxonomic and geographic information gaps of plants and fungi in Brazil.
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.
Cambridge University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP outlines a plan for documenting, managing, and sharing code and (re-)interpretation of secondary data pertaining to protein localization and proteomics.
California Ocean Science Trust
This DMP was created for California’s Statewide MPA Monitoring Program, collecting four levels of data. Data types include ecological data, fisheries landings data, environmental data, field and measurements.
Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data on factors like wave height, temperature, etc. to create a dataset in order to better understand how the Kelp Forest Ecosystem responds to climate change and local disturbances.
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; University of Waterloo
This DMP example show uses a case study of relativistic astrophysics and gravitational physics data to show how management strategies can support computational reproducibility in High-Performance Computing. Data are the inputs and outputs of the numerical simulation model.
Digital Research Alliance of Canada; University of Waterloo
This is a data management plan example created by the Ecohydrology Research Group at the University of Waterloo. It presents a sample DMP for research work within the field involving laboratory, chemical, biological and numerical data.
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.
University of the Virgin Islands; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP details a student research program that aims to build international research capacity in learners.
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.
Lincoln University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data non-native plant species in New Zealand to determine the impact climate limitations have on their growth/numbers.
University of New Mexico; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This is a data management plan that will collect patient and population-level data in order to determine the effectiveness of a new drug, rizatriptan on treating acute migraines at their onset or in a later phase.
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.
University of Victoria
This DMP is created for the Groundwater Science and Sustainability Research Group at the University of Victoria. The DMP aims to collect various forms of data, with an emphasis on geospatial data, and is inspired by the ecohydrology specific DMP template at UVic.
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.
Curtin University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will conduct open data pilot case studies investigate, develop, and implement open data management and sharing plans.
University of Cape Town (SA); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will collect and make publicly available tobacco related data in certain African countries to increase research in this field such that a continent-wide approach to tobacco control can be developed.
CIRAD, with contributions from WP4 and all SC partners
This DMP was created for the LEAP4NSSA project, which aims to establish a sustainable platform for the implementation of the AU-EU Research and Innovation Partnership. The data collected includes datasets from text and data mining, quantitative and qualitative data, and documentation data.
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.
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