Writing a

Data Management Plan

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Social Sciences and Humanities

Instructor: Nicholas Wolf, Data Services

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Date: September 17, 2015

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Why do grant agencies and researchers think data management

is important?

  1. Ensure grant-funded data preserved for the future

  2. Enable validation of your results by other researchers

  3. Encourage you and other researchers to expand on previous data

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Two main components to grant agency Data Management Plans (DMPs):

 

  1. What type of data will be generated?

  2. How will that data be preserved and re-used?

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1. What type of data will be generated?

  • What is the intellectual category of data being created?

e.g.: documents, images, tabular data, key:value pairs, bibliographic data

 

 

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Documents

Images

Tabular Data

XML

TXT

ODT

MD

PDF/A

 

TIF

MJ2

FLAC

MP4

 

 

CSV

XML

TXT

 

 

  • What are the sustainable file formats of these digital objects/datasets?

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Bonus #1: data and metadata encoding schemes

 

Examples:

   1. Use of Dublin Core scheme with XML to encode metadata:

Citizen Attitude Survey: Urban Problems in Ten American Cities, 1970 (ICPSR 7340)

 

   2. Use of DDI (Data Documentation Initiative) scheme with XML to encode metadata:

United States Congressional Survey, 1975 (ICPSR 7377)

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Bonus #2: use of naming authorities and ontologies

 

Examples:

   1. Use of GeoNames to disambiguate places with same name

Richmond, CA (5387428)   ≠  Richmond, VA (4781708)

 

   2. Use of VIAF to disambiguate personal names

Roger Williams, 1604?-1683 (VIAF ID 41882851) ≠

Roger Williams, 1924-2011 (VIAF ID 66678007)

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2. How will that data be preserved and re-used?

 

  • Who will act as steward of the data, and if that person cannot, what is the contingency plan?

 

 

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  • Where will that data or digital object reside?

        Selecting a data repository

image credits: Thierry van Benten, BraveBros., the Noun Project

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Writing a DMP using DMPTool

NYU institutional login

 

  • Includes templates for DMP content
  • Links to agency DMP requirements
  • Collaborative (for multi-participant grants)
  • Export DMP text for inclusion in application

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