Elements of a Data Management Plan: Roles and Responsibilities Ruth Duerr National Snow and Ice Data Center Version 1.0 Review Date

Elements of a data management plan: Roles and responsibilities; Version 0.1.0, Reviewed ?/?/?? Roles that need filling File manager is responsible for your data files, their formats, contents, and names; as well as how they are organized (e.g., spreadsheets, relational database, etc.) Metadata & documentation manager is responsible for creating metadata and documentation about the data created so that you and any other users can understand the data not just now but also in the future Backup & storage manager is responsible for ensuring that data is securely stored, has not been corrupted and that multiple, distributed copies exist

Elements of a data management plan: Roles and responsibilities; Version 0.1.0, Reviewed ?/?/?? Who is going to fill these rolls (i.e., do data management) during your research project?

Elements of a data management plan: Roles and responsibilities; Version 0.1.0, Reviewed ?/?/?? You? (on a small project that might be quite reasonable )

Elements of a data management plan: Roles and responsibilities; Version 0.1.0, Reviewed ?/?/?? Your graduate student? (Do really want them spending time doing data management and not learning how to do science? )

Elements of a data management plan: Roles and responsibilities; Version 0.1.0, Reviewed ?/?/?? A staff person? (Do they have any training or experience in this? )

Elements of a data management plan: Roles and responsibilities; Version 0.1.0, Reviewed ?/?/?? A data scientist, data manager, or data wrangler? (Does your organization have any of these? Your library or archive probably will )

Elements of a data management plan: Roles and responsibilities; Version 0.1.0, Reviewed ?/?/?? Will multiple people be involved? (What role will each play? )

Elements of a data management plan: Roles and responsibilities; Version 0.1.0, Reviewed ?/?/?? References and Resources Detailed questionnaire put together by the Data Conservancy about everything that might be important for your data management plan, V.1.pdf V.1.pdf California Digital Library’s on-line DMPTool, NSF’s data management plan requirements are available at NASA Data Policy science/earth-science-data/data-information-policy/ science/earth-science-data/data-information-policy/

Elements of a data management plan: Roles and responsibilities; Version 0.1.0, Reviewed ?/?/?? Other Relevant Modules For a high level overview of the content of a Data Management Plan see Data Management: Elements of a Plan For details of other sections of a Data Management Plan see: Identify materials to be created Organization and standards Describing and documenting your data Standards Data access, sharing and re-use policies Backups, archives, and preservation strategy