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
Last modified Jun 05, 2025
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University of Chicago; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to develop an annotation bank for day-long child-centric recordings that are already available to the research community based on an existing community data repository.
University of Arizona; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to utilize existing data to develop and disseminate a new software that researchers can use to access the Cloud in a more friendly manner.
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.
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 data for application in the field of oceanography.
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP looks at light pollution samples acquired by photometers followed by subsequent analysis.
Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental (CRIA); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to fill in and identify taxonomic and geographic information gaps of plants and fungi in Brazil.
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.
Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data on factors like wave height, temperature, etc. to create a dataset in order to better understand how the Kelp Forest Ecosystem responds to climate change and local disturbances.
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; 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.
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.
University of the Virgin Islands; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP details a student research program that aims to build international research capacity in learners.
Lincoln University; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data non-native plant species in New Zealand to determine the impact climate limitations have on their growth/numbers.
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.
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 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.
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.
Delft University of Technology; LIBER
This data management plan from LIBER aims to develop methods to reduce uncertainty in the quantification of Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) results.
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.
University of Southern California; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP attempts to redevelop a methodology of measuring Fe(II) in ocean seawater columns to create a better estimate of its concentration.
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.
University of Notre Dame; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP articulates the RDM procedures that will be undertaken for a FAIR Hackathon Workshop.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data on fish grazing intensity and algal biomass on water temperature and population control of primary producers.
New Jersey Institute of Technology
This DMP aims to collect mathematical model data, code, experimental data, and numerical simulation data. The project itself intends to create a cross-disciplinary training program based on the relationship between mathematics and biology.
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.
McGill University
This DMP aims to collect demographic and lifetime fitness data from transplant experiments, as well as temperature data and tabular data. This data will be used to investigate if habitat availability declines towards the range edge of Rhinanthus minor.
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