DSC-2025-22 | Create Your Own Data Management Plan: A Hands-On Workshop for Marine and Environmental Sciences
Context & Relevance
Effective research today depends not only on generating high-quality data but also on managing it responsible and sustainable. This hands-on workshop introduces participants to the essentials of creating a Data Management Plan (DMP), a key requirements for many funding agencies and an increasingly valuable tool for ensuring data integrity, reproducibility, and long-term accessibility.
Workshop Goal
The workshop is structured in two parts. In the first part, participants will learn the key concepts of DMPs, including their purpose, core components, and best practices in the context of STEM disciplines and quantitative data. In the second part, participants will apply this knowledge in a practical session, developing their own DMPs, either for their own dataset or for an example dataset provided during the workshop. Therefore we will use the guidelines for handling of research data in DFG projects.
By the end, attendees will leave with both a solid understanding of DMPs and a tailored DMP draft, they can adapt for future projects.
Preparation & Technical Requirements
- Please bring your own dataset, you want to write a DMP about or an example study that is similar to your research
- Own laptop
- Access to Eduroam
- Everybody who wants (or needs) some coffee: please bring your own mug
Sarah Büker works as Data Scientist at the Data Science Center (University of Bremen). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences of the University of Osnabrück and a Master’s degree in Marine Environmental Sciences of the University of Oldenburg. In her work she specialized on bioinformatics, FAIR data and accessible data management.