The Research Data College has published a checklist to help scientific projects manage and track their metadata throughout the data lifecycle. In an era of intensifying requirements for reusability, transparency, and compliance with FAIR principles, a simple, adaptable, and comprehensive tool is a real asset for:
- projects that need to integrate the requirements of funders and data repositories from the planning stage onwards;
- data producers and managers who want to document each step, from collection to archiving, without increasing their workload;
- curators and archivists who are looking for a coherent overview to ensure the sustainability of datasets.
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The checklist can be downloaded here (in french):
Frédéric de Lamotte, Véronique Stoll, Céline Hernandez, Cécile Arènes, Romain David, et al.. Faciliter la documentation des données grâce aux métadonnées dans un projet de recherche. Comité pour la science ouverte. 2025. ⟨hal-05455660⟩