Research data management
Data Management Plan
Planning a research needs documented sequence of intended actions and resources to gather, maintain, secure, and utilize data, compring a Data Management Plan (DMP). Once the data is determined and a DMP created, a system to store and manipulate the data can then be developed.
- What data will be created during research
- Which policies might apply to the data, such as legal, institutional and funding requirements
- Which data standards will be used, including metadata standards
- How data will be documented
- Ownership, copyright and intellectual property rights in data
- Data security aspects
- Data storage and backup measures and required equipment or infrastructure
- Plans for sharing data, who will have access and whether there are any embargoes or restrictions
- Data management roles and responsibilities
- Costing, resources and dissemination activities to enable data sharing
Digital Curation Centre in UK has provided software for data management planning, DMPonline, that everyone can use and customize. There is a demo available.
Study the DMP checklist:
 | dmp_checklist_2013.pdf | 75 KB |