Data Management Plan

1. What is the main purpose of a Data Management Plan?

To satisfy funding requirements by providing a document requested during the grant application process

To describe how visual data will be generated, managed, documented, preserved, shared, and reused throughout the research lifecycle

To replace the ethics review process by documenting how researchers will address ethical issues during the project

To describe the main location where all visual data are stored, organized, and made available to collaborators

2. How should a Data Management Plan be used?

As a document completed once and never updated

As a living document that evolves as the project changes

As a legal contract between researchers

As a repository agreement for visual data

3. During the research design phase, the Data Management Plan should become more detailed by describing...

The project's budget, expected costs, and allocation of financial resources across research activities

File naming conventions, metadata, storage procedures, backup strategies, access rights, and consent procedures

The expected research findings, planned conclusions, and anticipated scientific contributions of the project

The conferences, workshops, and public events where the research findings are expected to be presented

4. Why might the Data Management Plan need to be updated during the empirical phase?

Because the research topic may evolve automatically as new findings emerge during data collection

Because participants may withdraw consent, additional visual data may be collected, or storage procedures may need to be revised

Because research repositories require all Data Management Plans to be reviewed and updated every year

Because metadata assigned to visual data cannot be modified once the research has started