Data management planning Archive

  • University of Bath Data Management Plan template and guidance

    University of Bath Data Management Plan template and guidance

    One of our key tasks for the Research360 project was to produce an institutional template for data management plans (DMPs) at the University of Bath — an initial version of this is now complete and available to download, along with guidance on its completion. University of Bath Data Management Plan Template Writing your data management plan : [...]

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  • Updated postgraduate data management planning guidance

    Updated postgraduate data management planning guidance

    Since our original post about data management planning for postgraduate researchers we’ve updated the template a couple of times. We’ve also created a guidance document to accompany it, which will help researchers develop a data management plan even if they haven’t been able to attend a face-to-face workshop. We’ve started using the template as part of [...]

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  • DMPonline – current status

    DMPonline – current status

    In a news post back in January, I described our future plans for DMPonline in outline. This followed an extensive series of evaluations and tests of the tool and the underlying methodology as well as a re-examination of what the tool was meant to do an...

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  • New resources

    New resources

    There have been loads of useful links circulated recently. As an aide-memoire and signpost to others who may have missed them, here's a quick summary. First off there's a US study to demystify the data management requirements of research funder...

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  • Research data management training take 2

    Research data management training take 2

    On Thursday 28 June, Cathy and I ran the latest of our postgraduate workshops on research data management. The session was structured similarly to our last workshop, though without the extended hands-on section on data management planning. The loss of this section was down to time pressures (we had an hour less this time). We started by [...]

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  • Future plans for DMP Online

    Future plans for DMP Online

    Feedback on future developments for DMP Online gathered during the JISCMRD Workshop: Meeting (Disciplinary) Challenges in Research Data Management Planning on the 23rd March. Read more

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  • Postgraduate DMP template first draft

    Postgraduate DMP template first draft

    A lot of people have asked for this to be made available, so here it is: Data Management Plan for PGRs v0.2. It’s also available as a PDF. This template is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. We welcome comments and suggestions for improvements, and we’d love to hear from anyone who finds it [...]

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  • Research Data Management 101 — Data Management Planning

    Research Data Management 101 — Data Management Planning

    A few weeks ago, we got together some of our students from the Doctoral Training Centre in Sustainable Chemical Technologies to run a pilot training session on data management. As part of that, we asked them to trial a selection of data management plan (DMP) templates. We split the students into smaller groups, and assigned each [...]

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