Open science awards for research data: the ‘DataSusFood’ project wins an award

The Prix National de la Science Ouverte highlights young researchers, projects and research teams working to manage and disseminate data, some of whom base their research on the re-use of data that is already available.

The DataSusFood project « Structuring and opening up data to improve the sustainability of food systems » was awarded a prize in the ‘creating the conditions for the re-use of research data’ category. It consolidated the approach initiated ten years ago to promote the opening up and sharing of data. More specifically, the research focuses on biomass transformation processes and the characterisation of the foodstuffs and bioproducts derived from them, in conjunction with the recycling of residues or biowaste to meet the challenges of the bioeconomy. An ecosystem of tools has been developed to manage vocabulary, annotate datasets and deposit them directly into the Data Gouv Research warehouse.

This project was led by a multidisciplinary INRAE team made up of several units from the Transform department and one unit from the MathNum department, bringing together 27 people including Magalie Weber, a research engineer in the BIA unit, who coordinated the creation of the TransformON ontology (see the publication).