Data Plans

Granting agencies are increasingly interested in the inclusion of a data plan. These are 2 examples of the outline of these plans to help researchers to start thinking about issues that may have an impact.

1. NSF (Download document)
   1. Products of Research: Data types and metadata, roles and responsibilities of all parties, data management
   2. Data formats and standards
   3. Dissemination, access and sharing of data
   4. Re-Use, re-distribution and production of derivatives
   5. Archiving of data
2. NIH (Download document)
   1. Data types
   2. Related tools and software
   3. Data standards
   4. Data preservation, access (including timelines) and discoverability
   5. Terms for re-use and redistribution
   6. Limitations on access
   7. Oversight of data management.