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Data collection

Your Data Management Plan (DMP) should provide answers to the following questions:

  1. What is an approximate volume of your data?
  2. What is the format of your data?
  3. How can you describe your data?
  4. What is the method of the research (e.g. what procedures and processes are being followed)?

The table below shows considerations you should make when writing your answer with an example answer to help guide your writing.

Question: What is an approximate volume of your data?

Considerations: The quantity of your data, separated by each data type (e.g. quantity of audio files, quantity of transcripts)
The size of each individual file of your digital data
Calculating an overall value
Example answer: -

 

Question: What is the format of your data?
Considerations: The file formats of each relevant data type (e.g. .mp3 for audio files, .doc for transcripts)
Example answer: -

 

Question: How can you describe your data?

Considerations: Quantitative or qualitative?
Where data was collected from?
How the data is transformed? (e.g. audio data transform to mathematical numeric data)
Example answer: -

 

Question: What is the method of the research? (e.g. what procedures and processes are being followed?)
(alternatively: How will the data be collected or created?)
Considerations: What technical tools and/or techniques are used?
What actions the researchers take to collect the data
All experimental processes which produce information, forming research data in its own right

 
Example answer: -