Data Management

For researchers on the Belknap campus, you can submit a draft of a data management plan via email (tessa.withorn@louisville.edu) or by filling out this form to ensure you include all the necessary information about your project. Please allow approximately 1 week for feedback, which will focus on overarching best practices for data management processes.

Basic data management plans will consider the following components:

• description of the project
• description of the data that will be produced
• how data will be managed throughout the project
• documentation about the data, including metadata and format information
• plan for short-term data storage, backup, and security
• legal and ethical issues, such as intellectual property, copyright issues, and privacy
• access, sharing, and reuse of data
• data retention and disposal arrangements
• preservation and archiving to ensure the integrity and long-term preservation of the data

Some of the major institutions that require a data management plan include:

For a more complete list of organizations that require a data management plan: