The National Aeronautics and Space Administration

At a Glance

NASA The NASA Plan for Increasing Access to the Results of Scientific Research, released 21 November, 2014, describes the data management planning requirements for NASA grantees in the following way:

The November 2014 plan proposes to expand NASA's existing data management planning policies, as defined in the Procedural Requirements (NPR) 7120.8 document. The new policy states, in part:

DMPs will describe how the proposed research plan conforms to NASA policy on the dissemination and sharing of research results and will address:

  1. the types of data to be produced in the course of the project;
  2. the standards to be used for data and metadata format and content;
  3. policies for accessing and sharing the data, including provisions for appropriate protection of privacy, confidentiality, security, intellectual property, and other rights or requirements;
  4. policies and provisions for re-use, re-distribution, and the production of derivatives;
  5. plans for providing access to the data used in any science publication; and
  6. plans for archiving and preserving of the data, as appropriate (use of existing databases or public repositories will be strongly encouraged), including how long the data will be preserved and accessible.

Unidata has a sample Data Management Plan for an NASA proposal here.