"Ateliers de la donnée" - How France is implementing its national network of labelled Research data management Clusters - Recherche Data Gouv ecosystem
Creators: name: Swiatek Cassafieres, Cécile
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Parallel Session 4 – Hands-on Practices for Research Data Management
research data management
open dissemination

description: Abstract Since 2021, France has been implementing a proactive national policy to support research units and researchers in the formation and deposit of research datasets as part of its second national plan for Open Science and its ministerial roadmaps for algorithms, data and source codes. A presentation at LIBER 2022 of the national „Recherche data gouv” ecosystem of the French national repository and its related training and upskilling programme dedicated to researchers was successfully presented. For LIBER 2023, we propose to focus on the “Ateliers de la donnée” / „Data Workshops” programme https://recherche.data.gouv.fr/fr/page/ ateliers-de-la-donnee-des-services-generalistes-sur-tout-le-territoire. These workshops, organised as a territorial network, contextualise and give substance to this concrete support for researchers. They aim first and foremost to acculturate researchers and research support staff to research data management and to integrate the issues of open dissemination of these data and the generalisation of these good practices in laboratories, in order to ensure the best opening and management of research data produced with public funding. Libraries, a central and essential player in this support for the opening up and sharing of research data, are demonstrating the key role played by library services both in terms of the trust and reliability of the infrastructures used and as active trainers in the proper management and open dissemination of research results. As the “Ateliers de la donnée” / „Data Workshops” are a multi-level labelled scheme, the methodology used and the criteria put in place, as well as the design of national support and the creation of a collaborative dynamic at the level of the institutions labelled “Ateliers de la donnée” / „Data Workshops” or in the process of becoming so, are exemplary and deserve to be widely presented and shared. This presentation firstly presents the eligibility criteria used, the method employed, the creation of a national network to promote practitioners and best practices in data management and training for researchers and librarians. The presentation will then focus on the results obtained: firstly, the generalisation of the practice of depositing datasets and their public and open dissemination in trusted, secure and reliable repositories; secondly, the implementation of local training and support programmes for researchers; and thirdly, the generalisation of a culture of responding to calls for research projects, including the proper preparation, curation and publication of research datasets. The objective of this paper is to propose to the participants of this LIBER 2023 session the keys to the trust established with research libraries on the subject of research data, to show how France has positioned libraries as a fundamental actor in this subject and to discover the French national and local methods and organisations in terms of training and support for laboratories and researchers in the good practices of managing their research data. We also aim at the possible reproducibility of these methods for and by participants who will be interested in building similar workshops in the framework of a national policy.