The IMBER secretariat (http://www.imber.info/index.html) has published the Data Management Cookbook, which is a very practical and informally written plea for datamanagement and personal data-responsiblity in a project team in sea going ocean sciences. If you replace 'cruise' by 'project' in the text, it holds for all projects we are dealing with.
Check it out: IMBER_cookbook_2011_Final.pdf