Graduate Research Data Management Course Content: Teaching the Data Management Plan (DMP)

摘要

The need for effective education of graduate students in the area of Research Data Management (RDM) has been demonstrated through the number and types of recently developed courses on this topic. These courses tend to take one of two general forms: 1) a full-term, for-credit standalone course and 2) a workshop/seminar approach. However in both forms of the RDM course, one topic that is common to both approaches is the Data Management Plan (DMP). The DMP typically addresses the following major topics: 1) Data that will be created, 2) Data documentation and organization, 3) Data storage and security, 4) Data management and preservation after project completion, and 5) Data accessibility for reuse and sharing. These RDM courses typically include a student assignment or term project to develop a DMP. This DMP assignment is usually focused on the graduate student's research project with a goal of helping the student manage their research data.