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Research Data Management

DMP Makes It Easy

A Data Management Plan (DMP) is a living document that outlines how data are to be handled both during a research project and after a project is completed.

Why create a DMP?

  • Efficiency - identify both strategies and potential challenges in advance; develop sound data practices for your research team; prepare data for effective use during your project.

  • Research Quality - ensure reliability and accuracy of data through careful documentation of your data collection, handling and stewardship practices.

  • Reusability and Impact - Improve discoverability, accessibility, and reusability of your data by planning for sharing in a repository; increase the potential impact of your research!

  • Compliance - Satisfy DMP requirements that may be set forth by specific granting agencies or even your own institution.

 

❗For research conducted by or with First Nations, Métis and/or Inuit communities, DMPs must be co-developed with these communities to ensure that Indigenous data sovereignty is acknowledged, affirmed, and implemented. 

Source: Portage Network. (2020, August 25). Brief Guide - Data Management Plan. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4495482 

DMP Tool

 

DMP Assistant was developed by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance), providing templates based on discipline and research method

DMP Templates, Examples, and Exemplars

The Digital Research Alliance of Canada lists templates and exemplars on their Training Resources page:

DMP Assistant also provides access to publicly shared DMPs and DMP templates that can be used directly in the webtool:

McMaster's DMP Database gathers example DMPs from across the world, letting researchers search publicly shared DMPs by discipline, location, or funder to guide their own data management planning.