GFBio DMPT

Registered Users

✔ Answer important questions about the data management of your project
✔ Download your entries as a structured PDF file
✔ Request free personal DMP support from our experts
✔ Save your entries to your personal account and revise it whenever needed

Unregistered Users

✔ Answer important questions about the data management of your project
✔ Download your entries as a structured PDF file
✔ Request free personal DMP support from our experts

Why write a DMP?

In short, a DMP helps you to ask all the right questions concerning data management. By writing a DMP, you save a lot of time in the long run, you are aware of potential data management obstacles, and you increase the transparency as well as the integrity of your work. A well-structured Data Management Plan (DMP) clarifies how and what data will be created, processed, and documented. It names means of data archiving and publication regarding costs as well as access conditions for the scientific community and the public. Also, DMPs are increasingly required as a mandatory proposal part by research institutions and funding agencies.

Why request personal DMP support?

You can request DMP support

• if you need help completing the basic data management information
• for the creation of a more detailed advanced DMP which extends beyond the basic questions of our tool
• for a reviewed and GFBio approved version of your DMP, e.g. for your funding proposal.

One or several of our experts will check your information for integrity and refine your DMP in close collaboration with you. We will contact you personally and discuss various aspects of your data management, hint at possible data management solutions and standards and fill in missing parts of your DMP.

Learn more about DMP writing with our tool

In this how-to, you learn about preparing your custom data management plan (DMP) with the GFBio Data Management Plan Tool (DMPT) and about the services GFBio offers to support you.

 DMPT - TRAINING

What does the DMPT output look like?

The standard computer-produced output of the DMPT is a PDF file of several pages. It contains the information you collected with the tool, structured according to the categories (1) General Project Information, (2) Data Collection, (3) Documentation and Metadata, (4) Ethics and Legal Compliance and (5) Preservation and Sharing. The document is a first rough summary of your planned project and it is the first step of the creation of your personal data management plan (DMP). It is not designed for attaching it unprocessed to your funding proposal. We highly recommend to request our personal DMP support for your GFBio-approved DMP.

Who has access to your DMP?

All information stored in the DMPT is linked to your personal GFBio account. When you send a DMP support request to GFBio, your DMP is sent to the GFBio helpdesk team and the GFBio experts will have access to your DMP.

Your DMP is linked to your personal account.