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

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Assessment of hand function while wearing three different flexor tendon repair hand splints in healthy volunteers

Original Source

University of Nottingham

This DMP aims to collect quantitative data from 20 participants, of their Jebsen hand function test (JHFT) results. This data will aid in the assessment of hand function while wearing three different flexor tendon repair hand splints.

Clinical Data from Human Research Participants

Original Source

National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

This is an example of a data management plan from the NIH, intended to collect clinical, demographic, and dialysis data from research participants.

Co-creation of a supportive, inclusive resource for 10-15-year-olds to promote a balanced diet and positive body image

Original Source

Loughborough University

This DMP aims to collect survey and interview data, in the efforts of creating a resource for empowering and supporting teens to be curious and inquire about positive eating, body weight, and body image.

Data Management Plan for Ecohydrology Research Group

Original Source

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.

Data Management Plan for People, Places, Policies and Prospects: Affordable Rental Housing for Those in Greatest Need (example)

Original Source

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.

Data Management Plan Template: Systematic Reviews

Original Source

University of Calgary; Digital Research Alliance of Canada

This is a template DMP for use in systematic review projects in any field.

Data Management Plan to Optimize an Industrial Extrusion Process

Original Source

Cégep de Sherbrooke; Digital Research Alliance of Canada

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.

Designing Low-Temperature Synthesis Methods for 2-Dimensional Oxide Perovskites

Original Source

University of Waterloo; Digital Research Alliance of Canada

This DMP aims to collect photographs, Raman data, and lab data to develop new and efficient techniques for synthesizing two-dimensional perovskites at lower temperatures.

DMP Template for Pairwise Systematic Reviews

Original Source

University of Ottawa Heart Institute; Metaresearch and Open Science

Developed by researchers for the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, this guidance and worked example extracts examples from Beck, Leblanc, and Morissette's systematic review protocol on depression screening of children and adolescents. It outlines a data management plan for a systematic review study.

DMP Template for Pre-Clinical Animal Studies

Original Source

University of Ottawa Heart Institute; Metaresearch and Open Science

Developed by researchers for the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, this guidance and worked example outlines a data management plan for a pre-clinical laboratory animal study. This DMP outlines a project to explore stroke treatments using biocellulose duroplasty with rat subjects.

DMP Template for Randomized Clinical Trials

Original Source

University of Ottawa Heart Institute; Metaresearch and Open Science

Developed by researchers for the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, this guidance and worked example outlines a data management plan for a randomized controlled trial conducted with 100 human participants. Demographic data will be collected from participants, and then other data is collected by an electroencephalogram, electroculogram, electromyogram, as well as video and sound.

DyVirt Digital data management plan

Original Source

The University of Sheffield; University of Vienna (PHAIDRA)

This DMP was created for the DyVirt project which aims to create an early stage researcher training network that will address the challenge of modeling the performance of engineering structures in dynamic environments. It will consist of the collections of computer-based simulation models.

EnDurCrete Initial Data Management Plan

Original Source

FENIX; University of Vienna (PHAIDRA)

This DMP was created for the EnDurCrete project, which aims to develop a new cost-effective and sustainable reinforced concrete. Data to be collected includes CAD drawings, images, audio, textual and numeric data, process info, and test data.

FEAST: Food systems that support transitions to hEalthy And Sustainable dieTs

Original Source

FEAST Consortium

This DMP was created for the FEAST project, which aims to collect images, video, audio, presentation, questionnaires, interviews, and documentation data. The project itself intends to use this data to study food systems that support transitions to healthy and sustainable diets.

Field Testing and Long-Term Monitoring of Selected High-Mast Lighting Towers

Original Source

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.

Functional strength training versus movement performance therapy for upper limb motor recovery early after stroke: a RCT

Original Source

University of East Anglia; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance

This DMP was curated for the purpose of using MRI, TMS, and case report form data to analyze functional strength training for upper limb recovery after stroke.

Genomics Study: DMP template and worked example

Original Source

University of Ottawa Heart Institute; Metaresearch and Open Science

Developed by researchers for the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, this guidance and worked example outlines a hypothetical genomic study into acute lymphoblastic leukaemia using blood drawn from patients, healthy volunteers, and mouse models.

National Science Foundation (nsf.gov): NSF-ENG: Engineering

Original Source

National Science Foundation (NSF)

This DMP was created by the NSF as a template for Engineering.

Non-human data (primates)

Original Source

National Institute on Aging (NIA); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance

This DMP aims to collect videographic data to generate cardiac physiological profiles taking into consideration behavioral and autonomic nervous system data from 500 subjects.

Promoting Healthy Families Data Management Plan

Original Source

McMaster University; Offord Center for Child Studies

This DMP aims to collect questionnaires, personal data, computer-based tasks & output, ECG’s, EDA’s, videos, audio recordings, data analysis files, linkage data, interviews, and transcripts. This data will be used for the Promoting Healthy Families project, which will assess whether Triple P and COSP can help promote healthy family relationships.

Sample DMSP for R01 – mouse study, cardiac function, image data, -omics data

Original Source

University of Alabama Birmingham; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance

This is an example DMP that aims to collect gene and protein expression data to assess DNA methylation and its impact on cardiac function.

VDL Student Data Management Record

Original Source

McMaster University

This is a student data management record created by the vascular dynamics lab. Although it was created for students working within this lab and is structured for kinesiology related research, it has broad applicability as an exit protocol for labs working across Natural and Health Sciences.

Women's Advanced Risk-Assessment in Manitoba (WARM) Hearts

Original Source

University of Manitoba; Digital Research Alliance of Canada

This DMP aims to collect clinical data for 1000 women for an observational study to assess the effectiveness of a cardiovascular screening program and identify any potential biomarkers that are predicative for cardiovascular disease.

ZERO BRINE Data Management Plan

Original Source

Delft University of Technology; LIBER

This data management plan from LIBER aims to develop a plan to manage data for a project that intends to develop methods and technologies for "redesigning the value and supply chain of water and minerals."