Data, Algorithms, and Source Code Policy ‑ Roadmap 2021‑2024

Abstract

The French Data, Algorithms, and Source Code Policy - Roadmap 2021-2024 is a robust framework that promotes the reusability of research data by fostering open access, high-quality metadata, FAIR compliance, and long-term preservation. The policy integrates data, algorithms, and source code, recognizing their interdependence in ensuring the reusability of research outputs. It supports France’s broader national strategy on open science, contributing to initiatives like the Second National Plan for Open Science (2021–2024). It emphasizes not only open access but also the long-term maintenance of repositories and digital infrastructures, ensuring that research outputs remain usable for decades.

The roadmap emphasizes the creation and maintenance of high-quality metadata that is both human-readable and machine-actionable to describe datasets, algorithms, and source code. It proposes: A. Opening, sharing and exploiting data B. Research data management C. Preservation and opening of algorithms and source codes D. Use of open source software E. Open Science Infrastructure Ecosystem F. Simplifying life for researchers, teachers and students G.Identifying Policy Impacts.

The roadmap promotes the use of persistent identifiers for datasets and digital objects, encourages adherence to metadata standards and ontologies to ensure interoperability, and mandates clear licensing for datasets and source code, enabling reuse under transparent terms.

Overview

Country	France
Start date	2021
Annual Budget	n/a
Responsible organisation(s)	Ministry
Target group(s)	Civil society|Firms|Firms
Policy instrument type	Strategies, agendas and plans

Background

The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) has been committed to opening up data relating to its activities and those of its operators since 2013. <br/>This commitment was renewed in 2018 through the National Plan for Open Science in the opening or sharing of research data and source codes.<br/>Through this 2021-2024 roadmap, MESRI wishes to place data and source code, on the one hand, at the heart of the transformation of the ministry's action by making data a strategic asset and a common good for all services and, on the other hand, at the heart of the sustainable transformation of teaching and research practices.

Objective(s)

To support open access to data, code, and algorithms, maximising their impact and reuse, provided that privacy, ethical, and intellectual property rights are respected.

To promote integration with France’s Recherche Data Gouv platform, a national research data infrastructure, to streamline data sharing and reuse.

Public access URL

https://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/cid159462/la-feuille-de-route-2021-2024-du-mesri-sur-la-politique-des-donnees-des-algorithmes-et-des-codes-sources.html

All tags

• Ministry
• France
• 2021
• Strategies, agendas and plans
• Re-usability
• Technical Standards & Practices
• Civil society
• Firms

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