Recherche Data Gouv

Abstract

Recherche Data Gouv is the federated national research data platform. It constitutes a complete ecosystem for sharing and opening research data. It is both:

- A National Research Data Platform: A national repository with a generic collection and institutional spaces and a registry to search for data published in the repository itself or other external repositories.

- A National Federation of Competence Centres: offering support on research data management through the data life cycle, close to research teams

Overview

Country	France
Start date	2022
Annual Budget	€15M
Responsible organisation(s)	Academic cooperation
Target group(s)	Researchers and Research organisations (public or private) participating in Research Programmes funded by the European Commission across all disciplines. Only articles resulting from research funded by European research grants Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe are admissible.
Policy instrument type	federated national research data platform

Background

The launch of Recherche Data Gouv in July 2022 marked an important milestone in France's effort to strengthen its open science infrastructure. The European Commission report Cost-benefit analysis for FAIR research data – Cost of not having FAIR research data published in 2019 estimates that the mismanagement of research data has cost France €3 billion due to wasted time, non-optimised storage costs, licensing fees, problems with research being duplicated or a lack of cross-fertilisation. Recherche Data Gouv aims to respond to these challenges. It's creation was a commitment set out in the first National Plan for Open Science and reaffirmed in 2020. Consultations with researchers during preparatory studies for this project revealed the difficulties they are facing from the mismanagement or un-usability of research data. Recherche Data Gouv and HAL serve complementary roles in France's open science ecosystem: Recherche Data Gouv focuses on research data management, ensuring compliance with FAIR principles and supporting long-term reuse of datasets. While HAL, established earlier, focuses on archiving and sharing research publications while linking related datasets. The Recherche Data Gouv project is part of the National Plan for Open Science and is receiving full funding for the first three years from the National Fund for Open Science.

Objective(s)

To respond to the research data management challenges, such as wasted time, non-optimised storage costs, licensing fees, problems with research being duplicated or a lack of cross-fertilisation.

To address the proliferation of data repositories in France and worldwide (at least 110 in France including half a dozen existing institutional repositories and several others being set up), which greatly reduces the visibility and discoverability of data for researchers and acts as an obstacle to the cross-fertilisation of data between disciplines.

Public access URL

https://recherche.data.gouv.fr/

All tags

• Technical Standards & Practices
• France
• 2022
• Academic cooperation
• Higher education institutes
• Established researchers
• Junior researchers
• Private R&D
• Public research institutes
• Information services and access to datasets
• Accessibility

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