Research Data Management

A 4-step guide to getting started with research data and data management online.

• Familiarize yourself with the concept of research data
• Why should you be interested in research data management?
• Research Data Concepts: Leading French Websites
• Check out free online tutorials on research data

• Fact Sheet
• CIRAD
• CC-BY-NC-SA

Flowchart for managing and sharing data from a research project

This flowchart illustrates the sequence and interrelationship of the factors to consider when effectively managing and sharing data before, during, and after a research project.

• Guide
• AgroParisTech
• CC-BY

Implementing research data management at an institution

• Take into account the international and national context
• Involve scientists and support services
• Learn from others' experiences
• Include a wide range of contributors
• Communicating internally and externally
• Train staff and describe new job positions

• Fact Sheet
• CIRAD
• CC-BY-NC-SA

IRD Lifeline: Everything You Need to Manage Your Data

• Featured Websites
• Formats and nomenclatures
• Metadata standards
• Data retention
• Choosing a warehouse
• Choosing a degree program
• PGD/DMP Authoring Tool
• Examples of PGD/DMP
• Links and Contacts

• Fact Sheet
• IRD
• CC-BY

Best Practices for File and Data Management: How to Save Time and Avoid Disasters!

A practical guide to effective data management—from project design to data release—to save time by knowing where to find your data at any moment and by minimizing errors, confusion, redundancies, multiple versions, and disasters such as permanent data loss! Well-organized, well-documented, and easily traceable data allows you to verify the reliability of results and produce data that can be reused by yourself and others.

• Fact Sheet
• AgroParisTech
• CC-BY

Open Science and Research Project Planning: Resources to help define an open science strategy when planning a research project, with a particular focus on ANR and European projects.

Resources to help define an open science strategy when setting up a research project, with a particular focus on ANR and European projects.

• Guide
• AgroParisTech
• CC-BY

The basics of effective data management and sharing: the FAIR principles

Fact sheet on the FAIR principles applicable to data and metadata:

• Easy to find
• Accessible
• Interoperable
• Reusable

• Fact Sheet
• AgroParisTech
• CC-BY

Guide – Best Practices for Managing and Sharing My Research Data

An overview of why, when, and how to implement shared measures for managing and opening up research data—and everything you need to keep in mind to make it work!

• Fact Sheet
• AgroParisTech
• CC-BY

DataSusFood: Structuring and Opening Data to Improve the Sustainability of Food Systems

Presentation of a suite of tools designed to facilitate the management and sharing of data on the processing of agricultural materials into food and bioproducts, as well as on their environmental impacts.

• Feedback
• AgroParisTech
• CC-BY

DataSusFood Project: an example of how to integrate data on food, feed, bioproducts, and biowaste engineering

The project aims to develop an interoperable system with open-access data in accordance with the FAIR principles.

• Feedback
• AgroParisTech
• CC-BY

Data management for the Observatory for the Forest Economy (OLEF) infrastructure

Feedback on platform-wide data management and the implementation of an entity data management plan.

• Feedback
• AgroParisTech
• CC-BY

Research Data Management and Open Access at EcoFoG: Lessons Learned

Feedback on the research data management strategy implemented within a joint research unit: EcoFoG (Ecology of the Forests of French Guiana).

• Feedback
• AgroParisTech
• CC-BY