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.
DataOne
This DMP aims to collect data to investigate the effect nutrient limitation in grasslands on arthropod community diversity and growth levels.
DataOne
This DMP aims to collect data on the CO2 concentrations present in the air on Mauna Lao, a remote island observatory.
University of New Mexico; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect samples from the field to better understand biogenic carbonates through investigating microbes and minerals.
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.
Toronto Metropolitan University
This DMP aims to collect press reports, box office records, films, interviews, and MAXQDA files. The goal of the project is to study cultural diversity in film festivals.
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.
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; Cape Breton University
This example data management plan from the Alliance intended to analyze the availability and usage of affordable rental housing. The project requires the collection of various forms of numeric, audio-visual and text-based data collected from a variety of sources such as surveys, focus groups etc.
Digital Research Alliance of Canada; University of Saskatchewan
This DMP describes a plan for a study to collect data from academic profile websites--Google Scholar, Citations, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and ORCID--to understand the presence of librarian researchers on those platforms. Data collected for analysis includes textual and numerical data across different platforms and translated in to SPSS for analysis.
University of Victoria
This DMP is created for the Groundwater Science and Sustainability Research Group at the University of Victoria. The DMP aims to collect various forms of data, with an emphasis on geospatial data, and is inspired by the ecohydrology specific DMP template at UVic.
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.
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.
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.
University of Ottawa; CAU Kiel University; Digital Research Alliance of Canada
This is a template DMP for mixed social sciences research projects that adopt an open scholarship workflow and produce both qualitative and quantitative datasets.
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 Waterloo; McMaster University; The Gordon Foundation; University of Saskatchewan; Wilfrid Laurier University; Digital Research Alliance of Canada
This is a template DMP for oceanographic research to generate water quality data.
Utah State University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data by analyzing the rocks from the San Andreas Fault Zone to better understand processes, particularly dynamic weakening that lead to the generation of earthquakes.
McMaster University
This DMP aims to collect survey data, assessment data, interview data, audio recordings, transcriptions, document drafts, and data tables. This data will be used to create a set of design principles to empower university-level instructors to either incorporate generative AI tool use in assessments or to limit the impact of generative AI on the integrity of assessments.
DataOne
This DMP aims to collect data on water resources of the Rio Grande in an effort to create a geodatabase.
Universidade de Vigo (UVIGO)
This DMP was created for the rurAllure project, which aims to promote rural museums and heritage sites to help overcome the underdevelopment of rural areas. The data collected will include info sheets, statistics, questionnaires, and law/policy information.
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.
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This DMP aims to collect audio, video, transcriptions, field notes, artifacts, and survey data. These combined pieces will aid in the STEMco project, which aims to develop data-driven and research-based approaches, and associated training materials, for accommodating community multilingualism and individual plurilingualism in school communities throughout Europe.
Sheffield Hallam University
This DMP was created for the design and validation of an experimental tool that will study the effects of grammatical complexity and verb frequency in the learning of the English language. The DMP will outline the collection of speech data, audio recordings, and questionnaires.
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 Kentucky; Qualitative Data Management Plan (DMP) Competition
This DMP gathers semi-structured interviews, oral histories, focus groups, and Social Network Analysis (SNA) to investigate democratization of water pollution governance within the rural communities and urban centres around Lake Titicaca in Puno, Peru.
University of South Carolina
This DMP aims to collect journals, articles, and critical analysis information for the purpose of studying women writers’ role in literary history.
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
This DMP aims to collect observational data, text data, audio, fieldnotes, interview data, images, literature reviews, and exhibition/display analyses. The aim of this project is to use the mentioned data to analyze the practices of institutional decolonization.