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DMP template

A funder-, institution-, or community-specific structured set of questions and guidance used to elicit the content of a Data Management Plan from researchers.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board
· Last updated 21 May 2026

Examples

Worked examples

  • Is an instance

    The NSF-GEO DMP template encoded in DMPRoadmap with sections for data description, metadata, access, and re-use.

  • Is an instance

    An institutional template extending the Horizon Europe template with local storage-service guidance.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

  • Not an instance

    A blank Word document.

  • Not an instance

    An RDA Common Standard JSON schema (defines structure of the output, not the elicitation questions).

Editorial commentary

Templates organise required and recommended topics (e.g., data description, FAIR-enabling practices, ethics, storage, preservation, sharing, responsibilities) into question sections. In DMP tools, templates can be encoded so that the same underlying questions can be presented under different funder labels and exported into the funder's required structure.

References

  • DCC DMPonline funder templates library; Horizon Europe DMP template (European Commission).

Also known as

DMP questionnaire · DMP form

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element
xml
<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="DMP template"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/dmp-template" />
Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)
json
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "name": "DMP template",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/dmp-template",
  "description": "A funder-, institution-, or community-specific structured set of questions and guidance used to elicit the content of a Data Management Plan from researchers.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/machine-actionable-data-management-plans-madmp/",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/dmp-template",
  "sameAs": [
    "DMP questionnaire",
    "DMP form"
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}

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