Data management plan

A data management plan or DMP is a formal document that outlines how data are to be handled both during a research project, and after the project is completed.[1] The goal of a data management plan is to consider the many aspects of data management, metadata generation, data preservation, and analysis before the project begins;[2] this may lead to data being well-managed in the present,[citation needed] and prepared for preservation in the future.[2]

DMPs were originally used in 1966 to manage aeronautical and engineering projects' data collection and analysis, and expanded across engineering and scientific disciplines in the 1970s and 1980s. Up until the early 2000s, DMPs were used "for projects of great technical complexity, and for limited mid-study data collection and processing purposes".[3] In the 2000s and later, E-research and economic policies drove the development and uptake of DMPs.[3]

  1. ^ "Data Management Plan". University of Virginia Library. Archived from the original on Nov 9, 2012.
  2. ^ a b Burnette, Margaret; Williams, Sarah; Imker, Heidi (16 September 2016). "From Plan to Action: Successful Data Management Plan Implementation in a Multidisciplinary Project". Journal of eScience Librarianship. 5 (1): e1101. doi:10.7191/jeslib.2016.1101.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Smale_2018 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).