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).

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Art and Research Data Management Plan Template

Original Source

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.

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.

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 Belgians and French in the Prairies

Original Source

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.

Data Management Plan for Historical Canadian Census Data

Original Source

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.

Data Management Plan for Women's Print History Project (1750 - 1830)

Original Source

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.

Data Management Plan Template: History and the Humanities

Original Source

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.

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

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.

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.

HERCULES: Comprehensive characterization and effective combinatorial targeting of high-grade serous ovarian cancer via single-cell analysis

Original Source

University of Helsinki (UH)

This DMP was created for the HERCULES project, which aims to perform single-cell analysis to characterize and target high-grade serous ovarian cancer.

Molecular pathology cancer epidemiology studies to inform public health strategies for prevention, early detection and precision medicine

Original Source

University of Edinburgh

This DMP aims to collect medical record data, questionnaire data, images, genotypic data, and quantitative molecular genetic data. This data will be used in the effort of enhancing molecular pathology cancer epidemiology studies.

Personalized follow-up in HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer patients using liquid biopsies

Original Source

UMC Utrecht

This DMP aims to collect blood samples and EPD samples, in order to investigate the clinical performance of a liquid biopsy test.

Predictors for postoperative lumpectomy size in oncoplastic lumpectomy in breast cancer patients

Original Source

Utrecht University

This DMP aims to collect clinical health data from electronic records from approximately 400-500 patients. The relationship between the size of the preoperative radiological tumor and the size of the lumpectomy after surgery will be examined using this data.

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.

Technical Culture In The Reconstruction Of French Cathedrals After The First World War

Original Source

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.

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.

Virtual Holocaust Memory: from Testimony to Holography

Original Source

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.

Who Became a Nazi? A Structured Database of the Denazification Questionnaires from French and American Occupation Zones in Germany, 1945–1949

Original Source

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.

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.