Biodiversity data repositories

Share and use data and metadata

November 2025

Olivier Norvez

Yvan Le Bras

Animation coordinator
@PNDB  
@DataTerra  

Scientific and technical coordinator
@PNDB  
@DataTerra  

Data lifecycle

Data lifecycle

Flux and stocks

Flux and stocks

Sharing data and metadata from research activities requires making them available in repositories.

It is recommended to prioritize deposits in trusted thematic repositories (eg. InDoRES, SEANOE, …), or failing that in institutional repositories (eg. Data SUD, CIRAD Dataverse, …), or failing that, in generic repositories such as the Recherche Data Gouv repository. Resources exist for choosing the adapted and recommended data repository.

Source: Ouvrir la science (2024)

Source: Norvez et al.(2024)

Source: Recherche Data Gouv (2024)

Example of thematic / institutional repositories (France)

Table 1: Examples of biodiversity and environmental data repositories, from Ouvrir la science (2024) and adapted

Repositories names	Supporting by	thematic, institutional, generic	disciplinary fields	Accepted data (keywords)	embargo	Persistent identifier	Volume limit
InDoRES	CNRS-Ecology, MNHN	thematic ( and institutional)	Ecology, Environment, Bio-archaeology	Environmental, ecological and geographical data	yes	DOI	2 GB per data set but planned to increase to 4 / 5
EaSy Data	Data Terra, BRGM	thematic	Earth and Environmental Sciences	Long tail data from the earth system and environment (example: project issues)	yes (2 years max.)	DOI	5 GB per file, 100 GB per deposit. Possibility to make the request if larger volume
SEANOE	Ifremer	thematic (and institutional)	Oceanography	Georeferenced marine data	yes (2 years max.)	DOI	100 GB
Data SUD	IRD	institutional	all fields covered by IRD agents	???	???	DOI	???
GBIF	the international GBIF community	thematic	Life sciences, Biodiversity, Animal biology, Plant biology, Ecology, Environment; Ecosystems	Taxa, occurrence data, sampling data, all standardized according to Darwin core or ABCD standards.	yes	DOI	no
Recherche Data Gouv	Recherche Data Gouv	generic	all fields	all	yes	DOI	???

Catalog and metacatalog: From raw data to indicators

Catalog and metacatalog: From raw data to indicators

International repositories

https://info.figshare.com/

https://zenodo.org/