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This poster was presented during the 11th International Digital Curation Conference "Visible data, invisible infrastructure", 22 - 25 February 2016, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Les universités n'ont pas attendu les directives du Fonds National Suisse (FNS) pour se pencher sur la question de la préservation et de l'accessibilité des données scientifiques. Hors du milieu académique, d'autres acteurs, comme Docuteam Sàrl, se sont aussi spécialisés dans cette problématique.

Managing research data throughout its lifecycle ensures its long-term value and prevents data from falling into digital obsolescence. Proper data management is a key prere- quisite for effective data sharing throughout the scientific community. This, in turn, increases the visibility of scholarly work and is likely to increase citation rates. Many funding organizations prescribe the use of data management plans and insist on open access publication of the research results they funded. Even if a funding body does not explicitly demand data management, following professional curation and preserva- tion concepts has numerous advantages: • It greatly facilitates the reuse of research data. • As a result, this increases the impact of research results. • It saves precious research funds and ultimately natural and human resources by avoiding unnecessary dupli- cation of work. Today, the availability of well-managed data is part of good scientific practice and ensures the reproducibility of research results, a key requirement at the core of the research process. The following data management checklist is based on a generalised research data lifecycle, and is flexible enough to be applied to requirements from different funding organisations.