Data Management Plan

Increasingly grant sponsors and collaborating agencies are requiring Data Management Plans to address data interpretability, renderability and sustainability in a way that assures covering the entire curation lifecycle of the projects/data they aim to archive.
Beginning January 18, 2011, proposals submitted to NSF must include a supplementary document of no more than two pages labeled "Data Management Plan" (DMP). The institutional plan as described to NSF and other agencies requiring such plans should:
- Use non-lossy formatting to ensure that data manipulation does not cause any loss in fidelity or authenticity;
- Are widely implemented and supported;
- Preferably are open or non-proprietary;
- Have a potentially long life;
- Are most likely to have migration pathways to the next format available; and
- Can accommodate linked metadata and representation information to support identification, access and preservation processes (e.g. filed notes, date of creation, subject, author name, version etc.)
NSF Data Management Planning Site
NSF Templates for Data Management Plans
NSF Directorate Specific Guide for Biological Sciences
UC Berkeley's Guide for Data Management Plans
ICPSR Guidelines for Effective Data Management Plans
ARL Examples and Directorate Specific Requirements
ASU's Data Management Plan Checklist