Short Answer
A DMP, or data management plan, provides information about technical, organiszational, and content-related aspects of data usually derived from a set of structured questions.
Detailed Answer
Data management plans (DMPs) are ideally compiled as part of proposal preparation. Your proposal includes the most of the information you need to write your DMP. With the DMP, all questions about data management, and its documentation are planned before the project starts. In this way, many problems can be avoided during the project period, and more efficient work is possible. Precise documentation and the establishment of rules regarding data managment make the your results reliable, and reusable for others. But a DMP is not only created at the beginning of a project, it is a living document, and you it is recommended to should return to it at every phase of your project to ensure proper a seamless data documentation and management.
Instructions for writing a DMP can be found here. !! TO DISCUSS - Link to B- HOW TO DMP instead!
You find further information about the data life cycle in our fact sheets. !! Sentence to be REMOVED?
If you need help to write your dmp, please fill in the GFBio Data Management Plan Tool (DMPT). !! Doppelt sich das nicht mit dem Hinweis auf HOW TO DMP?
ALTERNATIV: If you want to get started with your own DMP right away, and want us to support you, pleasse fill in the GFBio Data Management Plan Tool (DMPT) and get in contact with us!
If you are interested in a DMP best-practice example, have a look at our GFBio model DMP: https://data.goettingen-research-online.de/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.25625/W3YEEQ