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.
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.
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.
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 demographic, clinical and MRI data from human subjects.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
University of Plymouth
This DMP aims to collect survey data to be used for understanding the employee perception of the economic outlook in Myanmar.
FACTS4WORKERS Consortium; University of Vienna (PHAIDRA)
This DMP was created for the FACTS4WORKERS project, which aims to use its collected data to develop and demonstrate workplace solutions that support and empower workers using smart factory infrastructure. The data to be collected includes 41 interviews with workers at 6 industrial partners, photos, videos, and data from focus groups.
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.
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.
ISGLOBAL
This DMP was created for the Harmonic project which aims to collect cancer patient data, cardiac patient data, as well as biomarker analysis data. The overall goal of the project is to build two cohorts of pediatric populations treated with medical ionizing radiation. The two cohorts are cardiac patients and cancer patients.
Women Food and Agriculture Network
This DMP aims to collect both digital and non-digital including online program participant registrations, outreach materials, project activity tracking, and assessment questionnaires. This data will be used in the effort of providing more opportunities for women farmers, as well as boosting aspects of confidence, interest, commitment, and connectivity with respect to the farming field.
University of Manchester
This DMP aims to collect tissue from failed cartilage surgery. The goal of the project is to identify mechanisms of failure.
University of Nebraska--Lincoln; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will collect data to "reduce the risk of hazard material transportation, reduce crashes, improve emergency response times for unexpected events, and increase the overall safety of system workers and users."
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.
UNIPI
This DMP was created for the PRIMAGE project which works in the area of medical imaging, artificial intelligence, and childhood cancer research. The project will collect data such as clinical data, biomarker information, and images.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.