Develop a Data management plan

A key step in ensuring that data generated at a field station can flow into and inform CBMP monitoring and assessment activities is the development of a data management plan. The USer Manual provides a template which offers a framwork within which develop a data management plan. Each user case may have different requriements howeveran example is also provided of how one field stationapplied this template in dveeloping their field station data management plan.

Please note that CAFFs Arctic Biodiversity Data Service (ABDS), an online, interoperable data management system for biodiversity data generated via the activities of CAFF, including the CBMP can be used by partners  collecting biodiversity data to submit, store and make available data via the ABDS if requested.

See here for a:

• Template to use in developing a monitoring plan; and an
• Example of how this template has been applied at a field station (RFS Field Station, Iceland).