A DMP will make your project more efficient, simplify your own reuse of the data, and help you make your data FAIR. It will help you to plan the costs of equipment and resources, identify problems and find solutions at an early stage. It will also clarify responsibilities and roles in the project team and facilitate data preservation, sharing and reuse. It is good research practice to write a data management plan and thus take care of your research data. Currently, it is frequently a requirement by research organisations and funders [1], [2].

Overall, the DMP will save you time later on in the publishing process and prevents data loss - the main winner of creating a DMP is you! If you consider in advance how the data should be processed, stored, and filed, you probably won’t have to reorganise your data. If, for example, it is already clear during data collection how the data is to be archived later, it can be formatted and stored right away in such a way that the transfer to the later archive is as simple as possible. Some domain-specific data centers strongly encourage you to contact them early on in a project to determine concrete requirements for taking on your data. There is a strong benefit of going towards FAIRness with a DMP: A DMP will allow you to gather in one document how to deal with the heterogeneous biodiversity data from collections, research, etc. and will serve as a model for understanding this information and disseminating it.