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Data management plan
You should decide how you will manage your data before you start creating data. A data management plan (DMP) shows that you have thought about how to create, store, archive, and give access to your data during and after your research project.
Decisions on data stewardship will affect how you can process, analyse, preserve, and share your research data in the future. Therefore, the first thing to do after you have determined your study design, is to prepare yourself by creating a data management plan (DMP). Nowadays, many research funders and academic institutions demand DMPs from researchers. The responsibility for creating a DMP lies primarily with principal investigators.