Data Management and PGD

FAIR Principles and Open Research Data: Webinar (UM)

This training session introduces the FAIR principles and explains how to apply them to data management, as well as the benefits researchers gain from doing so in terms of disseminating their research findings. 

• Resource type: webinar
• Educational institution: UM
• Target audience: researchers, faculty members, research support staff, and doctoral students
• Eligibility: Open to all EcoDoR members
• Status: active
• Last updated: 2025
• Keywords: FAIR principles – open data
• Level: Beginner
• Format: online
• Duration: 1 hour
• Language: French

Getting Started with DMP OPIDoR to Create Your Data Management Plan: Webinar (UM)

This webinar demonstrates the OPIDoR DMP tool.

• Resource type: webinar
• Educational institution: UM
• Target audience: researchers, faculty members, research support staff, and doctoral students
• Eligibility: Open to all EcoDoR members
• Status: active
• Last updated: 2025
• Keywords: PGD – DMP OPIDoR
• Level: Beginner
• Format: online
• Duration: 1 hour
• Language: French

Why Develop a Data Management Plan: Webinar (UM)

Since the 2016 Amsterdam Call for Action on Open Science and the 2021 decree regarding compliance with scientific integrity requirements by public research institutions, the data management plan (DMP) has become an essential document for any research project.

However, the PGD and the principles it promotes are not a recent development; traces of it can be found as early as the early 1980s at major organizations such as NASA.

But then, what exactly is a PGD? What are the principles this document aims to promote, and where do they come from?

Why is it an essential document for any research project?

If you want to become an expert on ERP, then this webinar is for you.

• Resource type: webinar
• Educational institution: UM
• Target audience: researchers, faculty members, research support staff, and doctoral students
• Eligibility: Open to all EcoDoR members
• Status: active
• Last updated: 2025
• Keywords: PGD – DMP
• Level: Beginner
• Format: online
• Duration: 1 hour
• Language: French

PGD Lifebuoy: Fact Sheet (IRD)

This resource guide provides an overview of all the key websites and contacts at IRD related to research data management. It also lists numerous resources for each stage of the data lifecycle (metadata standards, data repositories, guidance on choosing a license, examples of data management plans, etc.). 

• Resource type: fact sheet
• Educational institution: IRD
• Target audience: general public
• Eligibility for the training: any member of EcoDoR
• License: CC-BY
• Status: active
• Last updated: 2025
• Keywords: data lifecycle – EDM – Data warehouses – DataSuds 
• Level: all levels
• Language: French

Management and Accessibility of Research Data: Part 1. Theory (AgroParisTech)

A theoretical module covering the data lifecycle throughout a research project. The second part (hands-on workshop) is optional.

• Resource type: webinar
• Educational institution: AgroParisTech
• Target audience: anyone interested, including researchers, faculty members, engineers, doctoral students, administrative staff, etc.
• Access to the training: open to EcoDoR members (subject to availability)
• Status: active
• Last updated: 2025
• Keywords: data lifecycle – theory
• Level: Beginner
• Format: online
• Frequency: Once a year (in the fall)
• Duration: 4 hours
• Language: French

 Research Data Management and Open Access: Part 2. Practical Applications (AgroParisTech)

Optional hands-on workshop on drafting a data management plan for a fictional but realistic
project, providing an opportunity to explore in greater detail the concepts covered in the theoretical session, which must be completed beforehand.

• Resource type: webinar
• Educational institution: AgroParisTech
• Target audience: anyone interested, including researchers, faculty members, engineers, doctoral students, administrative staff, etc.
• Access to the training: open to EcoDoR members (subject to availability)
• Status: active
• Last updated: 2025
• Keywords: ERP – workshop
• Level: Beginner
• Format: online
• Frequency: Once a year (in the fall)
• Duration: 4 hours
• Language: French
• Prerequisite: You must have completed the first part of the training (Part 1: Theory)

 Research data management and open data: Part 1. (AgroParisTech)

A theoretical course explaining how to develop a strategy for managing and sharing research data. This course—
—can be taken without the second part.

• Resource type: webinar
• Educational institution: AgroParisTech
• Target audience: anyone interested, including researchers, faculty members, engineers, doctoral students, administrative staff, etc.
• Access to the training: open to EcoDoR members (subject to availability)
• Status: active
• Last updated: 2025
• Keywords: theory – managing research data
• Level: Beginner
• Format: online
• Frequency: Once a year (in the summer)
• Duration: 4 hours
• Language: English

 Research data management and open data: Part 2. (AgroParisTech)

Practical course (optional): Using a fictional but realistic research project, we will draft a data management plan. The various issues to be considered during this exercise will be addressed in their entirety (legal, IT, etc.). Completion of the theoretical component is required.

• Resource type: webinar
• Educational institution: AgroParisTech
• Target audience: anyone interested, including researchers, faculty members, engineers, doctoral students, administrative staff, etc.
• Access to the training: open to EcoDoR members (subject to availability)
• Status: active
• Last updated: 2025
• Keywords: DMP – workshop
• Level: Beginner
• Format: Online (webinar)
• Frequency: Once a year (in the summer)
• Duration: 4 hours
• Prerequisite: You must have completed the theoretical module (Research Data Management and Open Data: Part 1).
• Language: English

Selecting metadata for reproducibility: a game-based approach (CIRAD)

A serious game for 4 to 25 players. Participants are divided into groups of 2 to 5 people and work together to explore the concept of reproducibility by building vehicles out of LEGO and documenting their work. Ideal for sparking discussion among research teams.

• Resource type: activity
• Training institution: CIRAD
• Target audience: research staff
• Access to the training: access restricted to CIRAD staff
• Status: active
• Last updated: 2025
• Keywords: serious games – metadata – reproducibility
• Level: Beginner
• Format: In-person
• Frequency: quarterly
• Duration: 1 hour
• Language: French

Data Management Plan – Webinar (IRD)

Understanding research data and its lifecycle

• Resource type: distance learning (DL)
• Educational institution: IRD
• Target audience: data managers and administrative staff, but open to everyone
• Eligibility for the training program: IRD staff and employees under the joint supervision of the IRD
• License: CC-BY
• Status: active
• Last updated: 2025
• Keywords: data management – PGD – DMP
• Level: all levels
• Format: online
• Frequency: 3 or 4 times a year 
• Duration: 2 hours
• Language: French

Data Management Plan: 1 – Key Principles (INRAE)

To be familiar with and understand the broad outlines of the legal and political context of public research data management:

What is a PGD?

Why and how should you write it?

INRAE offers its recommendations.

• Resource type: training
• Training institution: INRAE
• Target audience: researchers, faculty members, research support staff, and doctoral students
• Access to the training: access restricted to INRAE UMR staff
• Status: active
• Last updated: 2025
• Keywords: ERP
• Level: Beginner
• Format: online (virtual classroom)
• Frequency: monthly
• Duration: 2 hours
• Language: French

Data Management Plan: 2 – Drafting Using the Opidor DMP Tool (INRAE)

This training session introduces the tools available to assist in drafting a PGD. In particular, it demonstrates the DMP OPIDoR tool. The trainers will guide you through the process of creating an account and taking your first steps with DMP OPIDoR.

• Resource type: training
• Training institution: INRAE
• Target audience: researchers, faculty members, research support staff, and doctoral students
• Access to the training: access restricted to INRAE UMR staff
• Status: active
• Last updated: 2025
• Keywords: PGD – DMP OPIDoR
• Level: Beginner
• Format: online (virtual classroom)
• Frequency: monthly
• Duration: 2 hours
• Language: French

Best Practices in Data Management, Codes, and Research Software: Self-Study Course (CIRAD)

This e-learning course covers best practices for research data management. 

• Resource type: self-paced learning
• Training institution: CIRAD
• Target audience: CIRAD staff
• Access to the training: access restricted to CIRAD staff
• Status: in development
• Last updated: 2025
• Keywords: data management – ERP – codes and software
• Level: Beginner
• Format: e-learning
• Duration: up to 6 hours
• Language: French

Data Management Plan – Training of Trainers (IRD)

Understanding research data and its lifecycle

• Resource type: in-person training
• Educational institution: IRD
• Target audience: data managers and administrative staff, but open to everyone
• Eligibility for the training program: IRD staff and employees under the joint supervision of the IRD
• License: CC-BY
• Status: active
• Last updated: 2025
• Keywords: data management – PGD – DMP
• Level: all levels
• Format: In-person
• Frequency: Once a year
• Duration: 5 days
• Language: French

Data Management Plan – Workshop (IRD)

A workshop that includes a theoretical component on data management plans and a practical component in which participants fill out their DMP templates during the session. 

• Resource type: DMP Party workshop
• Educational institution: IRD
• Target audience: data managers and administrative staff, but open to everyone
• Eligibility for the training program: IRD staff and employees under the joint supervision of the IRD
• License: CC-BY
• Status: active
• Last updated: 2025
• Keywords: data management – PGD – DMP
• Level: all levels
• Format: In-person
• Frequency: Twice a year
• Duration: 1 day
• Language: French

Data Management Plan for Beginners (INRAE) 

This training session explains why and how to write a business plan and introduces the DMP-OPIDoR tool. 

• Resource type: workshop
• Training institution: INRAE
• Target audience: organizations (units, centers, etc.)
• Access to the training: access restricted to INRAE staff
• Status: active
• Last updated: 2025
• Keywords: PGD – DMP – OPIDoR
• Level: Beginner
• Format: In-person
• Frequency: on demand
• Duration: half a day
• Language: French

Entity Data Management Plan (INRAE) 

Planning prior to drafting the entity’s PGD; grouping search results by entity; drafting using DMP Opidor

• Resource type: workshop
• Training institution: INRAE
• Target audience: organizations (units, centers, etc.)
• Access to the training: access restricted to INRAE staff
• Status: active
• Last updated: 2025
• Keywords: PGD entity – DMP OPIDoR
• Level: Advanced
• Format: In-person
• Frequency: on demand
• Duration: half a day
• Language: French
• Prerequisites: We recommend that you first complete the beginner-level Data Management Plan training workshop or have taken a corresponding online course (Open Class).

 Leveraging Biodiversity Data – From the Field to Publication (CIRAD)

Understand the national and international ecosystem, standards, and legislation related to biodiversity data, and learn about

Discover a tool for collecting data in the field

How to Clean and Prepare Your Biodiversity Data

Discover and select biodiversity data repositories

Presentation, research, and publication of data on GBIF

Writing data papers for biodiversity data

• Resource type: training
• Training institution: CIRAD
• Target audience: researchers
• Eligibility for the training: CIRAD staff, partners, and doctoral students who work with biodiversity data
• Status: active
• Last updated: 2025
• Keywords: biodiversity – data management – dissemination – datapaper
• Level: beginner or advanced
• Format: In-person
• Frequency: to be determined
• Duration: 3 days
• Language: French