In July 2022, the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR) inaugurated the Recherche Data Gouv portal , an ecosystem for sharing and opening up scientific research data. To support researchers in this process, Recherche Data Gouv is deploying an ecosystem of services to help prepare and disseminate research data throughout France, as well as a system for publishing and reporting research data. The recherche.data.gouv.fr portal will be the research data version of data.gouv.fr.
"When 50% of research work is publicly funded, data must be shared at the very least, and opened up at the very best," says Isabelle Blanc, ministerial administrator of data, algorithms and source codes at MESR, who heads up the Research Data Gouv ecosystem.
One year after its launch, themulti-disciplinary Data Gouv Research Warehouse was hosting over 2,000 datasets, corresponding to 36,000 data files, either fully open or shared with restricted access when required by the nature of the data. Some 288,500 files had been downloaded since July 8, 2022.
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CNRS Research Data: an example of the Research Data Gouv data warehouse
With the CNRS Research Data warehouse, opening in June 2023, CNRS enables scientists to publish their data from CNRS-supported research. It offers a generic main collection, and laboratories can request to create specific collections.
A commitment to open up all data is also one of the criteria used by French and European funding agencies to assess projects, and most publishers now require that the data linked to a publication be accessible.
The priority: supporting scientists
"Opening up data is more complex than opening up publications: research teams are required to carry out additional scientific work as far upstream as possible, when designing their project, and this cannot be entrusted to third parties," explains Isabelle Blanc. This means being able to describe the instruments, conditions and protocols used to produce and collect the data.
Indeed, according to a survey by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, between 2018 and 2020, 80% of research communities lacked either support or infrastructure.
Support has become a central element of the system, taking priority over the development of a technical solution. In 2023, 19 data workshops mobilized more than 350 people from 80 establishments.
CNRS is a partner in numerous data workshops, which are the entry point for scientists. It also contributes to the deployment of national resource centers, such as OPIDoR - a portal set up by Inist-CNRS, a pioneer in the development of data management plans - and DoRANum, which offers resources and training to support the scientific community in data management and sharing.
By 2025, the HAL open archive developed by CNRS should also offer a service for directly depositing the dataset associated with a publication and making it accessible from Recherche Data Gouv.
Recherche Data Gouv aims for European recognition
The Research Data Gouv steering committee is preparing several applications for 2024 to bring the national platform closer to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) project.
Recherche Data Gouv: towards better sharing of scientific research data
A commitment to sharing and openness
In July 2022, the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR) inaugurated the Recherche Data Gouv portal , an ecosystem for sharing and opening up scientific research data. To support researchers in this process, Recherche Data Gouv is deploying an ecosystem of services to help prepare and disseminate research data throughout France, as well as a system for publishing and reporting research data. The recherche.data.gouv.fr portal will be the research data version of data.gouv.fr.
"When 50% of research work is publicly funded, data must be shared at the very least, and opened up at the very best," says Isabelle Blanc, ministerial administrator of data, algorithms and source codes at MESR, who heads up the Research Data Gouv ecosystem.
One year after its launch, themulti-disciplinary Data Gouv Research Warehouse was hosting over 2,000 datasets, corresponding to 36,000 data files, either fully open or shared with restricted access when required by the nature of the data. Some 288,500 files had been downloaded since July 8, 2022.
Références :
CNRS Research Data: an example of the Research Data Gouv data warehouse
With the CNRS Research Data warehouse, opening in June 2023, CNRS enables scientists to publish their data from CNRS-supported research. It offers a generic main collection, and laboratories can request to create specific collections.
A commitment to open up all data is also one of the criteria used by French and European funding agencies to assess projects, and most publishers now require that the data linked to a publication be accessible.
The priority: supporting scientists
"Opening up data is more complex than opening up publications: research teams are required to carry out additional scientific work as far upstream as possible, when designing their project, and this cannot be entrusted to third parties," explains Isabelle Blanc. This means being able to describe the instruments, conditions and protocols used to produce and collect the data.
Indeed, according to a survey by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, between 2018 and 2020, 80% of research communities lacked either support or infrastructure.
Support has become a central element of the system, taking priority over the development of a technical solution. In 2023, 19 data workshops mobilized more than 350 people from 80 establishments.
CNRS is a partner in numerous data workshops, which are the entry point for scientists. It also contributes to the deployment of national resource centers, such as OPIDoR - a portal set up by Inist-CNRS, a pioneer in the development of data management plans - and DoRANum, which offers resources and training to support the scientific community in data management and sharing.
By 2025, the HAL open archive developed by CNRS should also offer a service for directly depositing the dataset associated with a publication and making it accessible from Recherche Data Gouv.
Recherche Data Gouv aims for European recognition
The Research Data Gouv steering committee is preparing several applications for 2024 to bring the national platform closer to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) project.