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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N/A; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect meteorological, physiochemical, environmental, and copepod population data to determine the effect of heavy metal on Estuarine Copepods.
DataOne
This DMP aims to collect data to investigate the effect nutrient limitation in grasslands on arthropod community diversity and growth levels.
USGS; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data from a Landsat Device like surface reflectance to assess the quality of a water source.
DataOne
This DMP aims to collect data on the CO2 concentrations present in the air on Mauna Lao, a remote island observatory.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data obtained from imaging mass cytometry in order to machine learning and computational models that to optimize the technology.
The University of Texas at Austin; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect genetic data of coral populations in the Florida Keys to better understand why nearshore coral reef patches do not recolonize the depleting offshore reef tract.
University of Colorado Boulder; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will collect meteorological and environmental data on the Boulder Creek Critical Zone Watersheds.
CalTech; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This example DMP aims to collect data on fruit flies using microscopy images and videos.
Dartmouth College; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect bacterial genotype, phenotype, microscopy, and western blot data in order to assess the role of cAMP on biofilm formation.
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.

University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
In order to better understand how recalcitrant organic matter becomes bioavailable, the DMP aims to collect geochemical, experimental, and observational data from water samples from White Oak River sites and Mid-Atlantic Bright Samples.
University of California, Santa Barbara; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will collect compositional, electrochemical property, and structural data to investigate their effects on the rate of electron transfer and structural stability of such Na-ion cathode materials.
UC San Diego; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP collects patient data (demographics, accuracy, and reaction time for experimental tests, and results from computer model simulations) to ascertain the impact of causal inference in visual identification.
Dartmouth College; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will use bacterial strains, phenotypic data, Western blot data, microscopy, and code to analyze cdG surface sensing in bacteria.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect coastal data on waves mostly in the coastal US and South Pacific.
University of Delaware; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP will utilize and analyze data from an already existing dataset to understand coastal ocean processes in North-East Greenland.
University of Oklahoma; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data on student satisfaction and performance in a geoscience class when video linking course content to actual careers is shown versus when it is not.
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.
University of Maine; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect data on coral reefs in the Gulf of Maine to better understand how they impact their habitat, their rate of reproduction, and how other marine life uses the coral reefs.
UC San Diego; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This is a sample data management plan from UC San Diego which details a strategy to collect and analyze data for research in the field of physical oceanography.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance
This DMP aims to collect hydrodynamic and ripple migration data to evaluate their impact of surf zone sediment transport and sandbar migration.
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.
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.
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.
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.