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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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.
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.
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; 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.
University of Waterloo; Digital Research Alliance of Canada

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.

Université du Québec à Montréal; Digital Research Alliance of Canada
This is a template DMP for researchers conducting historical research within the humanities utilizing analog research data.
University of Saskatchewan; Digital Research Alliance of Canada
This is a template DMP for research project utilizing technology and/or software for application in healthcare and medicine.
DataOne
This DMP aims to create software maps in order better read and store HDF files.
UC San Diego
This data management plan is from Allan Snavely's proposal to the Strategic Technologies for Cyberinfrastructure (STCI) program.
Christopher Newport University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will generate draft papers, software prototypes, configurational files, and other computational applications to improve cryptographic software fingerprinting.
University of Edinburgh
This DMP aims to collect photos, videos, sketches of elements, survey observations, and project documents, in order to understand from a technical perspective, how to reconstruct French cathedrals after the first world war.
Economic and Social Research Council; Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
This data management plan from the University of Leeds aims to create a website and a series of informational videos in memory of the Holocaust and its victims. This DMP also includes some reviewer feedback.
Fondation Jean-Jacques Laffont and Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
This DMP was created for the DeNazDB project, which studies what factors led to the German support of the Nazi’s. The data to be collected includes individual-level longitudinal data from the denazification questionnaires from 1945 and 1949.