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: 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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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.
This is an annotated DMP template for a Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)grant containing guidance text produced by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and the University of Sheffield Library.
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."
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.
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."
This fictional data management plan focuses on caring for mixed methods research through survey data, interviews, and focus groups. For the purposes of training, this DMP assumes data collected by the study will not be sensitive, and that participants have consented for their de-identified information to be deposited into a data repository in support of preservation and open research.
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.
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.
This is a DMP template for researchers at Leiden University, The Netherlands. It has a checkbox format instead of a paragraph format which could be useful for certain researchers.
This is a set of sample DMPs produced by the Rice Research Data Management Team containing a preamble explaining recommended content and two Sample DMPs for Biosciences and Social and Behavioral Sciences.
This DMP highlights how a Digital Curation Innovation Center will manage its data.
This DMP aims to collect data from public records and judicial proceedings to investigate and better understand the litigation process.
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.
This DMP example depicts a poor DMP and has associated comments explaining what makes it "bad" and how it can be improved.
This outlines best practices to include when writing DMPs. It shares examples of good language included in DMPs to highlight the importance of specificity in describing privacy and licensing, procedures, roles and responsibilities, data sharing, metadata, citation, and long-term archiving. It also gives examples of bad language in DMPs to demonstrate poor data management strategies.
This project will collect data from 60 interviews with Engineering Faculty to determine what assumptions they hold about students.
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.
This DMP aims to collect audio recordings, surveys, and observations to revitalize and endangered language.
This data management plan from the University of Glasgow for the "Mapping Metaphor" project aims to create a website and a mobile application with worksheets, lesson plans, interactive activities and data tailored for use by secondary school pupils and others.
This DMP will collect data to "reduce the risk of hazard material transportation, reduce crashes, improve emergency response times for unexpected events, and increase the overall safety of system workers and users."
This DMP outlines the data that will be collected from a novel program, REU that aims to increase undergraduate student engagement in research, particularly in the field of Engineered Bioactive Interfaces and Devices.