What information is included in a DMP? [127]

A DMP includes information about the data and metadata standards to be used and intended actions for acquiring, processing, analyzing, preserving, publishing/sharing, describing, managing the quality of, backing up, and securing data holdings. The DMP captures the point of contact for the project and its data, and assigns roles to people who will be responsible for data management, updating the DMP, and generating metadata and other documentation. Descriptive information about the expected data input and output from the project is also important to include in the DMP, such as the estimated volume of the data and the format of the data and the accompanying metadata. With regard to length, the DMP should be as long as it needs to be to fully describe the data management activities on a given project. Once a project proposal has been accepted and the project is underway, the DMP is expected to be updated throughout the length of the project.