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.
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.
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.
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; 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.
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.
Canadian Research Data Centre Network; Digital Research Alliance of Canada
This is a template DMP for researchers conducting statistics based research for Statistics Canada.
University of Alberta; Digital Research Alliance of Canada
This is a template DMP for mixed-methods research where data is obtained from surveys and qualitative interviews/focus groups.
University of Saskatchewan; Digital Research Alliance of Canada
This is a template DMP for qualitative research projects in the health sciences conducted on human participants.
Canadian Research Data Centre Network; Digital Research Alliance of Canada
This is a template DMP for researchers conducting statistics based research for Statistics Canada for use in external analyses and applications.
University of Calgary; Digital Research Alliance of Canada
This is a template DMP for use in systematic review projects in any field.
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect clinical and demographic data to better understand the association between balance deficits and urinary tract infections as well as low back pain.
Johns Hopkins University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect and create a public dataset of over 4000 MRI and CT scans of patients with various brain illnesses including but not limited to acute stroke and manual lesions.
McMaster University
This DMP aims to collect survey data, assessment data, interview data, audio recordings, transcriptions, document drafts, and data tables. This data will be used to create a set of design principles to empower university-level instructors to either incorporate generative AI tool use in assessments or to limit the impact of generative AI on the integrity of assessments.
National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
This is an example of a data management plan from the NIH, intended to collect data from a phase 3 RCT on preeclampsia.
University of Alberta; Digital Research Alliance of Canada
This is a DMP example for a fictional research study that will use a mixed-methods approach to collect participant data from interviews, surveys, and focus groups. This example uses the new Alliance Simplified Template (Funding Application Stage) which focuses on 5 questions that are helpful for a DMP that meets new Tri-Agency requirements.
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.
Universidade de Vigo (UVIGO)
This DMP was created for the rurAllure project, which aims to promote rural museums and heritage sites to help overcome the underdevelopment of rural areas. The data collected will include info sheets, statistics, questionnaires, and law/policy information.
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
This is a sample data management plan created by the ICPRSR, intended to be edited and customized by the user. It is a general data management template with basic information filled in to give researchers an idea of where to start.
National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
This is a sample data management plan from the NIH, intended for submission to the NIMH, presenting a proposal to perform secondary analysis on data collected from human subjects.
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This DMP aims to collect audio, video, transcriptions, field notes, artifacts, and survey data. These combined pieces will aid in the STEMco project, which aims to develop data-driven and research-based approaches, and associated training materials, for accommodating community multilingualism and individual plurilingualism in school communities throughout Europe.
National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
This is an example of a data management plan from the NIH, intended to collect anthropologic and public policy data from surveys and interviews.
Sheffield Hallam University
This DMP was created for the design and validation of an experimental tool that will study the effects of grammatical complexity and verb frequency in the learning of the English language. The DMP will outline the collection of speech data, audio recordings, and questionnaires.
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.
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.
University of South Carolina
This DMP aims to collect journals, articles, and critical analysis information for the purpose of studying women writers’ role in literary history.
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
This DMP aims to collect observational data, text data, audio, fieldnotes, interview data, images, literature reviews, and exhibition/display analyses. The aim of this project is to use the mentioned data to analyze the practices of institutional decolonization.
University of Zurich; ETH Zurich; University of Cambridge; Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
This data management plan aims to extend an existing study on the same topic by creating new data from surveys. This DMP also deals with sensitive identifiable data and anonymization practices.