Data Management Plans

Introduction

Planning for a project involves making decisions about data resources and potential products. A Data Management Plan (DMP) describes data that will be acquired or produced during research; how the data will be managed, described, and stored, what standards you will use, and how data will be handled and protected during and after the completion of the project. 

Source: USGS, https://www.usgs.gov/data-management/data-management-plans
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