Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
The DMP submitted with a Horizon Europe Stage 1 application.
- Is an instance
An NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan included with a competing grant application.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A mid-project DMP update.
- Not an instance
A post-project preservation record.
Editorial commentary
The creation phase is the first stage of the DMP lifecycle: the point at which a Data Management Plan (DMP) is first drafted, almost always at grant-proposal stage and before the underlying research has actually generated data. Content written at this stage is necessarily projective — expected data types and volumes, an intended repository, a proposed sharing timetable — rather than a record of what happened. Funders and institutional reviewers assessing a plan at this stage are checking completeness, internal consistency, and plausibility against the proposed budget and methods, not verifying outcomes, because there are no outcomes yet.
A research office most often meets the creation phase when helping an investigator complete a funder’s DMP section at submission — populating a template, checking that the plan’s storage and sharing commitments are realistic given available institutional infrastructure, and flagging where a cost element needs to be added to the grant budget rather than assumed. This is also where an office decides whether to build the plan directly in machine-actionable form (via a machine-actionable DMP (maDMP) tool such as DMPRoadmap or Argos) or draft a narrative first and convert later.
How it differs from adjacent DMP concepts
- vs. DMP closeout phase — the mirror-image stage: closeout reconciles the plan against actual outputs, creation only projects them.
- vs. DMP template — the template is the question set used to elicit creation-phase content; the creation phase is the act of answering it.
- vs. DMP review — review is a quality check that is frequently applied to creation-phase drafts, but review can also happen later in the lifecycle (e.g., of a mid-project amendment).
References
- Science Europe, Practical Guide to the International Alignment of Research Data Management (2021).
Also known as
DMP drafting phase · proposal-stage DMP
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