Data Managment Plan
For support planning, writing, editing, or, reviewing a data management plan, please contact kara.kugelmeyer@colby.edu. Kara has extensive experience creating DMP's for federal, state, foundations, and other granting bodies.
A data management plan (DMP) is a written document that describes the data you expect to acquire or generate during the course of a research project, how you will manage, describe, analyze, and store those data, and what mechanisms you will use at the end of your project to share and preserve your data (Source: Stanford University Libraries)
DMP Planning
Data Management Planning
- DMPs (DataOne)
Create ready-to-use data management plans for specific funding agencies.
- DMPs Online (UC)
Afree service that helps researchers and institutions to create high-quality data management plans that meet funder requirements.
- DMPs (DCC)
A flexible web-based tool to assist users to create personalised plans according to their context or research funder.
- DMPs (Data Conservancy)
A questionnaire which builds on work accomplished by the Data Conservancy and addresses the main elements of data management plans.
- DMPs (ANDS)
Introductory guide for researchers and research administrators who are charged with preparing a data management plan for a research project or an institution.
- DMPs (UCSD)
Connect with UCSD's digital technology services.
- Data Management Essentials (Wisconsin)
Six key recommendations for managing your data/digital materials to ensure their longevity and usefulness.
- Research Data Curation Bibliography
Over 680 selected English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding the curation of digital research data in academic and other research institutions.
- Research Data Management (Oxford)
Organize, structure, store, and care for the information used or generated during a research project.
- Resources for DMPs (ARL)
Resources for addressing the NSF requirement for DMPs.
Create DMP
DMPTool is an online platform providing ready-to-use templates for creating data management plans to be used in grant submissions for funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, the Department of Defense, and many more. Visit dmptool.org and sign in with your CMU credentials to get started! We also offer several sample DMPs, created by our Research Data Services team, which you are free to use as guides for your data management plans. You can view these under "My Dashboard" and scroll towards the bottom of the page to the section titled "Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Plans."
Best Bet Resouces for DMPs
General Information for PIs
- Managing Your Data
Manage, share, and preserve your research data.
- D2C2 (Purdue)
Plan, describe, disseminate, steward and archive your datasets.
- Data Management & Publishing (MIT)
Helping MIT faculty and researchers manage, store, and share data they produce.
- Linked Data
Practice for exposing, sharing, and connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic Web using URIs and RDF.
- Data Management Service Group (Cornell)
Assists with creating and implementing data management plans, applying best practices for managing data, and finding data management services at any stage of the research process.
Metadata
- Dublin Core Metadata
Promotes innovation in metadata design and best practices across the metadata ecology.
- Open Archives
Develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content.
Metadata Standards
- Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Promotes the coordinated development, use, sharing, and dissemination of geographic data.
- Darwin Core
Darwin Core is a metadata standard used to describe biological diversity.
- Data Document Initiative
A free standard that can document and manage different stages in the research data lifecycle.
- Directory Interchange Format
An introductory guide on how to write in DIF.
- FGDC Geospatial Metadata
Maps, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) files, imagery, and other location-based data resources.
- Marine Metadata Interoperability
A valuable resource for information pertaining to marine metadata, including standards, semantics, controlled vocabularies and ocean informatics.
- NISO Mix
Metadata for images in XML Schema.
- TEI
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a consortium which collectively develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form. Its chief deliverable is a set of Guidelines which specify encoding methods for machine-readable texts, chiefly in the humanities, social sciences and linguistics. Since 1994, the TEI Guidelines have been widely used by libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars to present texts for online research, teaching, and preservation. In addition to the Guidelines themselves, the Consortium provides a variety of resources and training events for learning TEI, information on projects using the TEI, a bibliography of TEI-related publications, and software developed for or adapted to the TEI.
Rights Management
- Creative Commons Search
Search for images that are in the public domain OR have been granted creative commons status.
- Open Data Commons
A set of legal tools to help you provide and use Open Data
- Science Commons
Explore the intersection of the web, legal tools, and scholarly publishing for the benefit of scientific discovery, innovation, and collaboration.