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).

Data Management Plan Database

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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.
Florida State University; Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP aims to collect image and video data, metadata, code, analytic and methodological data, assessment and evaluation data, digital assets, and interpretive materials.

Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP aims to collect archaeological data expressed in a variety of open formats including, JSON, and Atom Syndication Format.

University of Glasgow, Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
This data management plan from the University of Glasgow aims to build two online atlases of Scots syntactic features with a "Google Maps" style interface with audio recordings and geospatial, sociological and biographical material.
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.
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This project aims to ascertain whether "four approaches" can "improve the education and degree completion of low-income students at public STEM-focused Hispanic serving institutions."
University of Minnesota
This DMP aims to collect software application code documentation and journal articles for the community workbench for studying enlightenment media.
University of Texas at Austin
This DMP is a sample in the linguistics field, specifically pertaining to acoustic phonetics. The data collected will be audio recordings, Praat text grid files, Praat scripts, and measurement data.
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.
Natural Justice; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data on Indigenous experiences with climate change and the licensing behind data produced by these communities.
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.
University Lumiere Lyon 2; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data to understand "educational actors cooperate or compete around the definition of knowledge that is worthy of circulation in an education dialogue."
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.
University of Alabama; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data from public records and judicial proceedings to investigate and better understand the litigation process.
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.
Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will collect qualitative and quantitative information on cognitive, affective, and developmental data of human subjects to ascertain the impact financial constraints have on the academic performance of University students.
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This is a fictional DMP Example that aims to collect data on recipes from the 1600s to World War 1 to ultimately create an open-access database.
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.
Curtin University
This DMP aims to collect discussion response data to explore the changing skill sets of professional comedy writers in light of the emergence of Twitter.
ISPA; CRL
This DMP was created for the HOME_EU project which studies homelessness. The DMP outlines the collection of interview data from 5,600 expected adults across 8 countries.
University of Edinburgh
This DMP aims to collect point cloud data from a 3D scanner, videos, photos, and survey data. The project aims to use this data to study the architectural and construction technology aspects of a 13th-century church called St Sophia in Andravida, Peloponnese.
INKREATE Consortium; University of Vienna (PHAIDRA)
This DMP aims to collect 3D scans for the InKreate project. This project intends to improve the apparel design process, using 3D visualization technology. 
California State Polytechnic University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This project will collect data from 60 interviews with Engineering Faculty to determine what assumptions they hold about students.
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.
Temple University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect audio recordings, surveys, and observations to revitalize and endangered language.
University of Texas at Austin
This DMP outlines various questions to be used for creating a DMP for linguistic research.