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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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 Montreal

This DMP aims to collect calculations, simulations, publications, presentations, and experimental design work. The goal of the project is to comprehend and control the quantum dynamics of light-induced excited states in condensed matter.

Innovative Medicines Initiative

This DMP was created for the ConcePTION project, which aims to create an ecosystem that will collect information regarding the effects of medications used during pregnancy and breastfeeding. The DMP will outline the collection of healthcare data, surveillance data, research data, pharmacovigilance data, human reported data, human milk and blood samples,  animal milk and blood data, and human cells.

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; 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.
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.
University of Waterloo; Digital Research Alliance of Canada

This DMP aims to collect text, binary (ASCII, binary), images, audio, etc. data to develop advanced research computing frameworks and infrastructure for application in various fields like quantum chemistry, biochemistry, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

University of Calgary; Digital Research Alliance of Canada

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

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.

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.
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.

New Jersey Institute of Technology
This DMP aims to collect mathematical model data, code, experimental data, and numerical simulation data. The project itself intends to create a cross-disciplinary training program based on the relationship between mathematics and biology.
Washington University in St. Louis; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance

This DMP aims to collect demographic, clinical, and patient data in the form of MRI scans as well as patient placenta and tissue data from pregnant people diagnosed with fetal CHD.

Uppsala University
This DMP aims to collect semi-structured interview data, participatory observations, media articles, printed materials, and activist documentations. This allows for the examination of how Japan's Shrine Shinto institutions have reacted to the secularism clauses in the country's postwar constitution.
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.

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This DMP aims to collect health information and educational resources for women with epilepsy from preconception to postpartum. The resources consist of texts, audio, video, and apps.
Karolinska Institutet
This DMP aims to collect data from medical records to be used in cohort studies, case-control studies and risk-prediction studies. These studies are performed in the effort of increasing person-centered care during labor.
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.

INSIGHTS Consortium; University of Vienna (PHAIDRA)
This DMP was created for the INSIGHTS project, which aims to develop advanced statistical methods for software-aided problem solving in particle physics and other fields. This project will develop experimental data with 4 levels of significance.
University of Bristol; Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
This data management plan from the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of Bristol aims to create a series of mini-documentaries, a 30m documentary and a photo exhibition on Buddhist Cosmology.
University of Bristol
This DMP was created for the ALSPAC study, which is a multi-generation, geographically based cohort study of 14,541 pregnant mothers and their partners, offspring, and children from 1990-1992. This study data was used in a project about parental religious behavior and beliefs.
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.

Princeton University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data from support groups for those abused by clergy and semi-structured interviews to better understand the experiences of survivors of sexual assault.
University of Ottawa; Digital Research Alliance of Canada
This DMP aims to collect and provide empirical evidence for the impact of data usage, data citation, and use of datasets on academic communication.
Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Research Network (MNCHRN), University of Edinburgh
This DMP was created for the RESPIRE project, which aims to study the perceived effects of second-hand smoke on a pregnant woman. The DMP will outline the collection of a total of 35 to 45 interviews.
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.