Research Data

"ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher. You can connect your iD with your professional information — affiliations, grants, publications, peer review, and more. You can use your iD to share your information with other systems, ensuring you get recognition for all your contributions, saving you time and hassle, and reducing the risk of errors."

• Create your ORCID iD

​To ensure that other researchers will be able to understand and reuse your data, it is highly recommended that you create a data management plan.

The Digital Research Alliance of Canada (formerly the Portage Network), which "serves Canadian researchers, with the objective of advancing Canada’s position as a leader in the knowledge economy on the international stage", has created the DMP Assistant, which helps researchers make decisions on:

• Data collection: data types, file formats, names, and organisation, version control;
• Documentation and metadata;
• Storage and backup: storage space and period, collaboration between members of the research team;
• Data preservation;
• Sharing and reuse, licenses, DOI;
• Responsibilities and managing data costs;
• Ethics and legal compliance to reuse (sensitive) data.

This plan should be revised throughout the project.

• IMPORTANT: Use DMP Assistant's template!

Data Management Costing Tools:

• Estimating costs RDM tool (OpenAIRE)
• Library cost calculator for data management (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
• Costing data management for your research (UK Data Service)

• Travelling Wave Tube Based W‐Band Wireless Networks with High Data Rate Distribution, Spectrum & Energy Efficiency
• Synthetic Chemistry (University of Glasgow)
• Example Data Management Plan: Chemistry (University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School)
• Work Package (WP) 6 Responsible Innovation of the Synthetic Biology Applications to Water Supply and Remediation Project (University of Glasgow)
• NASA Mission Project Data Management Plans (NASA)
• Unraveling the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Inertio-Elastic Turbulence using Measurements and Data-Infused Simulations (MIT)
• Lumped damage mechanics applied to nonlinear analysis of reinforced concrete planar frames with any polygonal cross-sections (Aeronautics Institute of Technology)
• CSSI Elements: Exosphere, A Researcher-Friendly Interface to the Cloud (University of Arizona)
• Designing an Intelligent Cloud Motion Vector Sensor (CMVS) System to Detect Clouds and Forecast Real-time PV System Performance (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
• NSF ENG Data Management Plan Template for the University of Michigan College of Engineering
• Other Public DMPs (DMP Tool)
• Data Management Plan Database (McMaster University)