“Research data are data that are used as primary sources to support technical or scientific enquiry, research, scholarship, or creative practice, and that are used as evidence in the research process and/or are commonly accepted in the research community as necessary to validate research findings and results. Research data may be experimental data, observational data, operational data, third party data, public sector data, monitoring data, processed data, or repurposed data. What is considered relevant research data is often highly contextual, and determining what counts as such should be guided by disciplinary norms.”– Frequently Asked Questions Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy
A Data Management Plan (DMP) is a formal, living document that details the strategies and tools you will implement to effectively manage your data during the active phase of research, and also the mechanisms which will be used for preserving and appropriately sharing data at the end of the project. [from Portage Network. (2020, August 25). Brief Guide - Data Management Plan. Zenodo.]
If you’re applying for Research Ethics approval, the questions you will answer in your DMP will be one in the same.
Even if you're not applying for a grant or research ethics approval, it is best practice to think through the questions in a DMP before starting a project.
Based on the Portage Template for Arts-based research (linked below) and includes ECU specific resources and contact information.
Developed by Hillary Webb with support from Justin Langlois (AVP Research), Ed Lazar (ITS), Lois Klassen (ECU REB Coordinator), Vanessa Kam (University Librarian), Ruth Beer (ECU Faculty member), and Nadia Beyzaei & Caylee Raber (Health Design Lab).
This ECU template is a work-in-progress and will be updated periodically. Not all questions will need to be addressed in your individual project’s DMP. Only address those questions that pertain to your research.
This brief guide presents a general framework for creating an effective data management plan (DMP) to help you plan and organize your research and to meet research funder requirements.
To prepare your DMP, visit the Portage DMP Assistant tool
The template includes both guidelines for storing, preserving, and sharing access to artistic products generated through research and guidelines for decision making around ownership, access, and possession of artistic processes and artistic products generated for/ through research." - Abstract
Paton, C., Bernier, A., Evering, D., Sinding, C., Maxwell, C., Sproule, S., & Sas van der Linden, L. (2024). Art and Research Data Management Plan Template (Version 2). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10651058
"This template will assist you in creating a data management plan for arts-based research (ABR). It is intended for researchers and artists who use artistic processes as research methods (i.e., arts-based methods). ABR is used across disciplines and encompasses diverse understandings of the arts, research, and how they intersect. In this template, ABR is an umbrella term for all the ways the arts are adapted to answer research questions, including those described as arts research, artistic research, and research-creation. You can use this template on its own, or in combination with others on the DMP Assistant when using arts-based methods with other methodological approaches." -- abstract
Lévesque, Michel, & Doiron, James. (2021). Data Management Plan Template: Arts-Based Research. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4571671
"This model was developed for researchers in history and in the larger field of humanities. It was designed to take into account the fact that research projects in these disciplines still primarily use analog research data during the active, phases of a project." -- abstract
Lisée, Cynthia, & Kelly, Benoît. (2021). Data Management Plan Template: History and the Humanities. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4684738
The basics of a DMP include the following (this is from the Portage Network Brief Guide to Creating an Effective Data Management Plan)
For an ECU specific template, contact Hillary Webb.
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