Data Management Plan

In order to meet the researchers’ wishes to be able to access practical information with regard to managing, documenting and sharing data, DANS has drawn up a Data Management Plan. The plan can be used as a checklist in the early stages of a data collection project, which then lists a simple action plan.

Researchers are increasingly required to share data, regardless of the scientific discipline within which the data are collected. This implies that high demands are made on the visibility and accessibility of data. It goes without saying that researchers are primarily responsible for managing a data collection project. Data archives and repositories have experience in particular with the visibility and accessibility of data, especially for the longer term.

Sources for this plan include the Data Management Plan of the UK Data Archive in the United Kingdom and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research in the United States.

Data Management Plan for Scientific Research - March 2012
Data Management Plan - part 1: Preparation of the data collection project
Data Management Plan - part 2: Implementation of the data collection project
Data Management Plan - part 3: Archiving data and making data available