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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Basic Research from a Non-Human Source Example

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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.

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

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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.

Canada Excellence Research Chair in Nano-Optical Biosensing and Molecular Diagnostics

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McMaster University

This DMP aims to collect info data, raw data, processed data, analyzed data, and report data. The goal of the project is to build a research and technology center to develop high-performance methods for biosensing and bioimaging.

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

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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.

D4.11 Data Management Plan - Intermediate version

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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)

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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 Template: Advanced Research Computing

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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.

Data Management Plan Template: Studying Molecular Interactions

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University of New Brunswick; Digital Research Alliance of Canada

This is a template DMP for use in projects that combine scientific methods with computer simulations/modelling to study molecular interactions.

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

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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.

Drug discovery including intellectual property

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National Institute on Aging (NIA); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance

This is a DMP for a hypothetical drug discovery including intellectual property using mice: chemical structures, workflows, medicinal and analytical chemistry, histopathology, immunohistochemistry, and PET imaging. Data and protocols are proposed to be shared in PubChem and AD Knowledge Portal.

Gene expression analysis data from non-human model organism (zebrafish)

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National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

This is a sample data management plan from the NIH, intended for submission to the NICHD, that describes a plan to create and preserve biological data from different types of fish embryos.

Genomic Data from Human Research Participants Example

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National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance

This example DMP aims to collect genomic and phenotypic data from 36 human subjects.

Genomic data from human research participants

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National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

This is a sample data management plan from the NIH, intended for submission to the NIMH, presenting a proposal to collect and analyze genomic, phenotypic, and clinical data from human subjects.

Genomic data from a non-human source

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National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

This is a sample data management plan from the NIH, intended for submission to the NIMH, presenting a proposal to collect and analyze genomic data from animal (mice) and human subjects.

Human clinical and genomics data

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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 for submission to the NICHD, that details a plan to collect and deidentify clinical, laboratory and genomic data from 1000 participants.

Human genomic data

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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.

OSIRIS-REx Science Data Management Plan

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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.

Secondary Data Analysis Example

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National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

This sample data management and sharing plan proposes a secondary data analysis of existing kidney magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. This secondary data will be accessed from the database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP). The goal of this research is to produce a clinical dataset of kidney volume, estimated using a neural network.

Supply and Demand of Proteins During Neuronal Growth and Extension

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UC San Diego; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance

This is a data management plan from UC San Diego which details a strategy to collect and analyze raw data.

ViaLactea Data for Visual Analytics

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Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance

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