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. 

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ATLAS: AuTonomous intraLuminAl Surgery

 Original Source
University of Leuven
This DMP was created for the ATLAS project which aims to explore autonomous intraluminal surgery. The data collected includes CBCT data, Pre-operative CT or MRI volumetric dataset, optical tracking data, images, sensor data, motor data, ultrasound data, and a virtual reality multi-modality dataset.

Automated and Segmentation-Optional Approaches for Extracting and Characterizing Clinically-Predictive Patterns of Immune Cell Organization from Multi-Sample Imaging Mass Cytometry Datasets

 Original Source
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data obtained from imaging mass cytometry in order to machine learning and computational models that to optimize the technology.

Basic Research from a Non-Human Source Example

 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 genomic data and subsequent phenotype data from cancerous mice models.

Burden of care: Incidence of surgical procedures on cleft patients

 Original Source
UMC Utrecht
This DMP aims to collect quantitative human healthcare data from approximately 300 participants. This data will be used to provide an overview of surgical procedures for patients with clefts.

Canada Excellence Research Chair in Nano-Optical Biosensing and Molecular Diagnostics

 Original Source
McMaster University
This DMP aims to collect info data, raw data, processed data, analyzed data, and report data. The goal of the project is to build a research and technology center to develop high-performance methods for biosensing and bioimaging.

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.

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 Template: Studying Molecular Interactions

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University of New Brunswick; Digital Research Alliance of Canada
This is a template DMP for use in projects that combine scientific methods with computer simulations/modelling to study molecular interactions.

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.

DMP Template for Pairwise Systematic Reviews

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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

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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

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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.

Drug discovery including intellectual property

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National Institute on Aging (NIA); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This is a DMP for a hypothetical drug discovery including intellectual property using mice: chemical structures, workflows, medicinal and analytical chemistry, histopathology, immunohistochemistry, and PET imaging. Data and protocols are proposed to be shared in PubChem and AD Knowledge Portal.

EAGER: High-throughput, culture-independent technique identifying cyanobacteria infections to improve understanding of carbon biogeochemical cycling

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Johns Hopkins University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data on viruses and viral infections in the ocean to better understand which bacteria viruses infect. To do this, the researchers are developing a "high-throughput technique to identify cultures in the environment."

Gene expression analysis data from non-human model organism (zebrafish)

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National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
This is a sample data management plan from the NIH, intended for submission to the NICHD, that describes a plan to create and preserve biological data from different types of fish embryos.

Genomic data from human research participants

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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 collect and analyze genomic, phenotypic, and clinical data from human subjects.

Genomic Data from Human Research Participants Example

 Original Source
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance

This example DMP aims to collect genomic and phenotypic data from 36 human subjects.

Genomic data from a non-human source

 Original Source
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 collect and analyze genomic data from animal (mice) and human subjects.

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.

Human clinical and genomics data

 Original Source
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 for submission to the NICHD, that details a plan to collect and deidentify clinical, laboratory and genomic data from 1000 participants.

Human genomic data

 Original Source
National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Human Genome Research Institute Home (NHGRI)

This is a sample data management plan from the NIH, intended for submission to the NHGRI, that provides an outline for a project involving human genomic and clinical data.

Identifying Mechanisms of Failure of Cartilage Repair Surgery

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University of Manchester
This DMP aims to collect tissue from failed cartilage surgery. The goal of the project is to identify mechanisms of failure.

IRF3 and macrophage polarization during experimental periodontitis

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University of Nebraska Medical Center; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect wet-lab cellular data obtained from microscopy, blots, etc. in order to evaluate the role of various immune mediators in periodontitis.

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.

Secondary Data Analysis Example

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

This sample data management and sharing plan proposes a secondary data analysis of existing kidney magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. This secondary data will be accessed from the database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP). The goal of this research is to produce a clinical dataset of kidney volume, estimated using a neural network.

Signature for Pain Recovery IN Teens (SPRINT)

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Stanford University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect patient clinical data in order to develop a guideline to diagnose teens suffering from MSK pain.

Supply and Demand of Proteins During Neuronal Growth and Extension

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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 raw data.

The visual outcome of children after epilepsy surgery

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UMC Utrecht
This DMP aims to collect a pseudonymized/anonymized dataset from a minimum of 28 patients from the department of Ophthalmology. This data will be used in the effort of analyzing the visual outcome of children after epilepsy surgery.

Three-dimensional virtual surgical planning and patient-specific osteosynthesis with drilling guides for acetabular fracture surgery

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UMC Utrecht
This DMP aims to collect patient data and medical records for the efforts of assessing whether patient-specific implants for acetabular fracture surgery result in a more accurate reconstruction.

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. 

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