"Open data repository for scientific data sharing with the southern countries" was the subject of the talk given by Jean-Chsritophe Desconnets, head of the IRD's Infrastructure and Digital Data Mission (MIDN), in Gabarone (Botswana) on 2018, november 8th during the International Data Week. It presents the IRD's data repository project that will open in 2019. This project is co-managed by MIDN, IT and IST Services.

1. Open data repository for scientific data
sharing with the southern countries
Desconnets J‐C, Aventurier P., Banon S., Doucouré C., CoupinT., Soumaré A.
Gaborone, on 8th November 2018

2. Working mainly in partnership with Mediterranean and inter‐tropical
countries on the science of global development issues.
Multidisciplinary research: health and society, climate change,
humanitarian and political crises, agriculture and biodiversity,
IRD : French National Research Institute for Sustainable
Development
Publications : 1300/Year
65 Research Unit
52 % co‐publications with
South Countries
2048 Agents
Budget : 230 M€/Year

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1‐ Generalizing Open Access to
publications
2 ‐ Structure research data and
make it available through Open
Access
3‐ Be part of a sustainable European
and international Open Science
dynamic
http://cache.media.enseignementsup‐recherche.gouv.fr/file/Recherche/50/1/SO_A4_2018_EN_01_leger_982501.pdf
OLInFER'2018. IRD Open Science, nov 2018
General context
french national plan for open science

4. sharing
new papers
new citations
reuse
IdentificationDescriptionDiscovery
Storage
deposit
Current practises in research community
science data life cycle
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Research project
design
Start of project
Data
acquisition
Data analysis
scientific paper(s)
End of project
data cycle during the project
data cycle in data repository
project bounds memory lapse
data destruction
add value of research work
Data
acquisition
Research project
design
Start of project Data analysis end of project
Data
management
plan
scientific paper(s)
data cycle during the project
data cycle in data repository
project bounds
add value of research work

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IRD data repository objectives
First piece for the ecosystem « data management for open
science »
Short term objective (2019‐2020)
 Provide a service (platform + support + curation) to researchers to control
the dissemination of their data and their preservation
Mid‐term objective (2020‐2025)
 Ensure the discovery of data archived in other repositories, data centres
or research infrastructures (directory function)

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Internally
 Responding to the national plan for open science
 Improve the knowledge and management of datasets
 A first "concrete" element towards an open science policy at the IRD
Specific objectives
Institutional issues
For our southern partners
 Define and control the data governance instead of private repositrories
 Improve the accessibility of our data to Southern partners
 Support open science initiatives in the South (replication of the data
repository, capacity building)
Europe and international level
 Meeting the requirements of European programmes
 Integrate into European EOSC (European Open Science Cloud)
infrastructures

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Data repository scope
Targeted data
Unstructured, undigitised data,
stored in PCs, historical data not
linked to internally or externally
accessible databases
Observatories, data
centres, online
databases
Statistical distribution of research data
(Ferguson et al., 2014)

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Coming from various scientific domains with differents characteristics
 Genomics
 Exploited marine ecosystems
 Marine and agro biodiversity
 Health
 Environment sciences
Targeted data and needs
With various needs and expectations from researchers
 Data rescue, data preservation
 Reproducibility of experiments
 DOI allocation, data papers
 Data Sharing over the data producers

9. •Limit to data discovery and access facilities
•Make available FAIR data
•Support metadata harvesting from OAI‐PMH protocol
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Principles for design
Metadata core
model
(Dublin Core)
Standard
Identification
system (DOI,
ORCID…)
Domain
categorie
s
Harvest
Control
metadata value
Use
Extend
Specific metadata
domain standard
Spatial
location
Species
taxonomies
extended discovery facilities interoperability

10. •Digital Object identifier Allocation for each dataset
• Flexibility to describe a dataset (enrich core metadata model with
metadata standard coming from a specific domain)
• Possibility to put data management in the hands of researchers:
each data folder can be managed by a different administrator
• Publication workflow which allows
• Obtaining a secure temporary link for reviewers of an article
related to unpublished data
• Data versioning
• Metrics (download, view, guest book)
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And key user requirements

11. • Open source software, created in 2006 by Harvard university
• Set up a local Dataverse instance and participate in the Dataverse
network (CIRAD, INRA, Science Po...)
• Integrate an "ecosystem" of interoperable data repositories
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Software for data repository
dataverse.org
https://dataverse.org/

12. Data serie
Data set
Full text search
Faceted search
Dataverse
Web user interface – data discovery

13. Data citation
Dataverse
Web user interface – data citation and access
Associated
data files

14. Typical use of the data repository
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• Creation of a repository folder and training of a referent person
• research units, projects can create a customizable repository folder "Dataverse", ...)
Description
and data
deposit by
researcher
Validation of
the deposit
by a general
administrator
Publication of
the dataset FAIR data
Researchers deposit, in accordance with
the data management plan, a data set in
their repository folder dedicated using
standardised formats and metadata to
describe their data
(open/ closed /embargo/
only metadata )

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IRD Open data
repository
Spring 2019
Data management
plan (DMPs). Design
and availability of IRD
DMP Template
Training courses for researchers
.
Train scientific data experts and offer
real careers in these professions, which
will be the bridge between IT and
thematic research
Reform the research
assessment to encourage
data sharing
First element for a open science policy at IRD

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Contact :
Desconnets Jean‐Christophe
Head of Mission on Infrastructures
and Digital data Mission
Jean‐Christophe.Desconnets@ird.fr