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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Newcastle University
This DMP predicts to collect spectrograms, and formant frequencies. This data will be used in the aim to understand how singers’ accent and pronunciation contributes to the ways their music is received and understood.
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.
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
This DMP was created for the audioCommons project, which aims to create an ecosystem for reuse of audio content, to encourage creativity and innovation.
University of Vienna (PHAIDRA)
This DMP was created for the Beacon project, which aims to develop and test the tools necessary for the assessment of bentonite mechanical evolution. Data collected will include images, observational data, experimental data, and physical data.
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.
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; 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.
University of Alberta; Digital Research Alliance of Canada
This is a template DMP for arts-based research intending for projects that will utilize artistic research methods.
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.
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.
DYNACOMP consortium; University of Vienna (PHAIDRA)
This DMP was created for the DYNACOMP project, which aims to set up a training network for the design of advanced structural composite materials. Data collected includes mainly numerical data.
University of Vienna (PHAIDRA)
This DMP was created for the EVE project, which aims to promote a sustainable approach to creating new hi-tech ground vehicle systems. It will intend to deal with raw data, and analyzed data.
National Science Foundation (NSF)
This DMP was created by the NSF as a template for Engineering.
Loughborough University
This DMP aims to collect qualitative interview data, which will be used in the efforts of validating and exploring more about a literature review on the integration of sustainability into graphic design pedagogy in UK higher education.
University of Bath
This DMP is a template for the department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath.
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.
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.
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.