Building Raised Beds

Data modeling, planning, and structuring

Data Management Guidance Review
$175/hour x 2 hours = $350

Scenario: Your funding organization develops a 5-page data management guidance document for its grantees. Since it will be public and grantees will be expected to follow it, you want a second perspective on its validity and potential gaps. The Data Patch reviews the guidance and provides comprehensive feedback that goes beyond simple edits:

  • identifying strategic gaps
  • verifying and/or recommending discipline-appropriate repositories and metadata standards
  • suggesting resources to help grantees succeed

We help you transform general principles into actionable expectations with clear milestones, empowering your grantees to meet your standards with confidence.

Open your seed catalog, sharpen your tools and lay out your garden. Getting the structure right from the start saves enormous headaches later.

We help you design data that works: management plans that satisfy funders and set your future self up for success; well-documented models that reflect how your research actually operates and allow you to stand up a database; and collection templates aligned to standards so your data plays well with others.

What you get:

  • Data management plans that go beyond boilerplate
  • Data models tailored to your project’s needs
  • Collection templates aligned to community standards, making publishing, sharing, and reuse straightforward

Whether you’re starting a new project or organizing one that’s growing wild, we’ll help you build a foundation that lasts.