Tutorial guides for best use of the Repository

Updated at: 17/11/2025

Are you taking your first steps with the Recherche Data Gouv repository and want to publish data there? Would you like to submit your data for publication there? Have you already submitted a dataset, but need to add extra metadata to it?..

For answers to these, and other, questions, see the interactive tutorials that are available in the ‘Online Help’ section of the Recherche Data Gouv platform 

Thanks to a successful collaboration with DoRANum (the French national online training platform for managing and sharing research data according to FAIR principles), several of these guides have recently been revamped. These engaging and concise tutorials are now available in French or English. They also include a transcript (in PDF format) for greater accessibility.

Here are some example guides:

Thanks to the repository tutorials, discover for example:

All these guides can also be consulted on the DoRANum website (in French).

A ‘deposit cheat-sheat' guide outlining all of the steps in a successful data submission is also available.