Data Management

What is a Data Management Plan?

A data management plan is a written assessment of how project or research data will be collected, organized, shared, maintained, and preserved.

Why Manage Your Data?

• Fulfill requirements
• Improve project efficiency
• Organize large sets of data
• Preservation
• Reuse
• Promote research

How Do I Create a DMP?

• Establish data management goals
• Consult funding agency guidelines (NSF, NEH, IMLS)
• Review checklists of recommended data management topics
• Use a data management planning tool, like DMPTool or DMPonline (UK)

Managing Your Data

• Analyze the data (what kind(s) of data? how much data? who needs your data? how will it be used in the future?)
• Organize the data (decide on file naming conventions, directory structures, metadata standards, data formats)
• Decide how the data can be accessed (what will be shared? how will it be shared? when will it be shared?)
• Who is responsible for your data?

Working with Projects and Data

• Data Interviews

• Resources