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RDA DMP Common Standard

A community-developed application profile, maintained by the Research Data Alliance DMP Common Standards Working Group, defining the core entities, properties, and JSON schema for expressing machine-actionable DMPs.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board
· Last updated 21 May 2026

Examples

Worked examples

  • Is an instance

    A JSON file with top-level 'dmp' object containing 'project', 'dataset', and 'contact' arrays validating against the published schema.

  • Is an instance

    A funder requiring DMP submissions to conform to RDA DMP CS v1.1.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

  • Not an instance

    DataCite Metadata Schema (describes published datasets, not management plans).

  • Not an instance

    DCAT (a discovery catalogue vocabulary, not a planning standard).

Editorial commentary

The standard models a DMP as a graph of entities: dmp, project, contact, contributor, dataset, distribution, host, metadata, security_and_privacy, technical_resource, cost. Each entity has required and optional properties, with persistent identifiers (PIDs) used wherever possible. Implementations exist in DMPRoadmap, Argos, DataDMP, and ezDMP, supporting cross-tool exchange.

References

  • RDA DMP Common Standards WG outputs; GitHub repository RDA-DMP-Common-Standard/RDA-DMP-Common-Standard.

Also known as

RDA DMP CS · DMP Common Standard

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element
xml
<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="RDA DMP Common Standard"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/rda-dmp-common-standard" />
Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)
json
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "name": "RDA DMP Common Standard",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/rda-dmp-common-standard",
  "description": "A community-developed application profile, maintained by the Research Data Alliance DMP Common Standards Working Group, defining the core entities, properties, and JSON schema for expressing machine-actionable DMPs.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/machine-actionable-data-management-plans-madmp/",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/rda-dmp-common-standard",
  "sameAs": [
    "RDA DMP CS",
    "DMP Common Standard"
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}

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