Data Management Plan
Data Description
This project will produce INSERT TYPES OF DATA PRODUCED AND IN WHAT FIELD
(EX: “BEHAVIORAL, PHYSICOLOGICAL, HISTOLOGICAL AND GENOMIC DATA AND
ACOUSTIC RECORDINGS FROM BIRDS IN THE WILD AND IN CAPTIVITY).
Data Definition
For this data management plan, “DATA” are defined as recorded factual material
commonly accepted in the INSERT YOUR RESEARCH FIELD research community as
observations and measurements necessary to carry out research, including raw data
(unprocessed numbers, notes, observations, photographs). We define “RESULTS” as
extending to include preliminary analyses, drafts of scientific papers, future research
plans, peer reviews, or communications between colleagues or evaluators.
Data Management and Storage
The Principal Investigators and their research team will collect, manage, and maintain
research the results until data are shared publicly with others (see below). All data will
be primarily stored in a password-protected environment at Hunter College and will
include a master copy of digital files with multiple backup copies at the Graduate Center
of the City University of New York. A printout of PDF-scanned or converted version of all
data files will be kept in a fire-proof cabinet at Hunter College.
KEEP IF RELEVANT TO YOUR STUDY: Genomic Data (RNA-eq and Pac Bio reads):
During the course of the project raw read will be stored on secure servers (with routine,
automated backup to a server in a different building or cloud) at both collaborating
Institutes. Upon publication, raw read data (whole genome, transcriptome, metagenome)
will be accessioned to the GenBank short read archive (SRA) following established
protocols for metadata.
Data Access and Sharing
The project will share data and make them accessible to others through selfdissemination and archival preservation in a public data repository.
Self-dissemination will include annual and final reports to the funding agency, home
university, and peer-reviewed publications in academic journals, as well as conference
presentations, public outreach talks and workshops, classroom teaching, and the
press/media. In case of departure or loss of personnel from the project, the remaining
senior team members will resume the duties of curating the data and the sharing.
To make data available to colleagues and the public, the project will use the Knowledge
Network for Biocomplexity (KNB), within DataOne – a public data repository. Acoustic
and video recordings will be catalogued and deposited through the PLEASE INSERT
ARCHIVE OR LIBRARY RELEVANT TO YOUR FIELD, EX: THE MACAULAY
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LIBRARY’S MEDIA ARCHIVES AT CORNELL LABORATORY OF ORNITHOLOGY
(support letter attached).
KEEP IF RELEVANT TO YOUR STUDY: Genomic data: All molecular data will be made
available in public databases (NCBI Short Read Archive) upon publication of the
associated manuscripts. Because the whole genome data we are collecting can be used
to study diverse questions not encompassed in this proposal, data will be made
available in advance of publication also by direct request to the PIs. Any scripts or
computational pipelines developed during the course of this research will be made
available via lab websites and by request.
Data Matrices: Processed data matrices (for example, RNAseq read counts) will be
archived at Data Dryad (datadryad.org).
Procedural Information and Metadata
Metadata will be compliant with (INSERT YOUR FIELD’S STANDARD FOR META
DATE, EX: Ecological Metadata Language (EML)) to ensure interoperability among
metadata-using applications.
Intellectual Property
The Principal Investigators’ university (Hunter College) is the holder of the intellectual
property rights for data.
Quality, Ethics and Privacy
The quality of all data will be double checked before digital storage by the PI and one of
the Senior Personnel. Identifying information for non-university participant sourced data
will be replaced with an anonymous and unique ID so that no shared data will include
information that could be used to identify a particular person who has not given
permission to release such information either through authorship of a published or
public/scientific conference presentation.
Budget
The project expects to share its results with other researchers at no cost. We are also
requesting funds for peer-reviewed publications in open-access formats (per article fee
or in open access journals) as part of our budget.
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