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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Afro-Descendant Movements and Territories of Life in Urban Spaces: Examples from Brazil

Original Source

University of Massachusetts Amherst; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance

This DMP investigates Afro-descendant movement in Latin America and subsequent self-determined collectives using participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and participatory workshops.

An Annotated Digital Edition of Franz Boas’s Pioneering Ethnography

Original Source

Bard Graduate Center; Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP aims to collect digitized materials, fonts, search algorithms, and software. The digitized materials will consist of historical and recent photographs, newspaper clippings, sound recordings, video clips, interviews, published essays, narratives, and songs.

Biological Anthropology: Data Management Plan - Boyer

Original Source

Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP aims to collect 3D digital data, algorithms for shape analysis, publications, and conferences.

Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Light-Matter Interactions

Original Source

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.

Collaborative Research: A Novel Physics-Based Fluid-Solid Interaction Methodology

Original Source

University of Kansas; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance

This DMP aims to collect data to establish a novel mode of interaction between fluids and solids.

Cultural Anthropology: Data Management Plan - Ryzweski

Original Source

Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP is curated to document 20 – 25 digital stories depicting Detroit’s ethnic histories. The data collected will include a combination of digital images, audio and video.

Cultural Anthropology: Data Management Plan - Kuipers

Original Source

Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP aims to collect survey data, digital scans, transcriptions, and fieldnotes from observations.

D4.11 Data Management Plan - Intermediate version

Original Source

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance

This DMP looks at light pollution samples acquired by photometers followed by subsequent analysis.

Data Management Plan for Computational reproducibility in High-Performance Computing (HPC)

Original Source

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.

Data Management Plan: Soundscape Study

Original Source

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.

Data Management Plan Template: Advanced Research Computing

Original Source

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.

Designing Low-Temperature Synthesis Methods for 2-Dimensional Oxide Perovskites

Original Source

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.

Doctoral Dissertation Research: AnAgent-Based Model of Population Changes in a Vulnerable Coastal Environment

Original Source

Louisiana State University; Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP aims to collect coastal hazard data, GIS shape files and data, social-economic data, and demographic data. This data will be used for investigating population changes in a vulnerable coastal environment.

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.

Linguistic Anthropology: Data Management Plan - Amith

Original Source

Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP aims to collect texts, transcriptions, photographs, visual materials, audio, and translations.

OSIRIS-REx Science Data Management Plan

Original Source

University of Arizona; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance

This document is an in-depth process Data Management Plan for the OSIRIS-REx project. This outlines generation and validation of mission, spacecraft, instrumentation, calibration, algorithms, software, and other data for an asteroid sample return project.

Survey and Interview Example

Original Source

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.

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.

ViaLactea Data for Visual Analytics

Original Source

Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance

This DMP will collect different wavelengths of light to analyze star formation regions in the Milky Way.