Building a resilient and sovereign architecture for academic data

Data management in the current socio-ecological context presents many challenges. Among them, building a sovereign and sustainable European data management ecosystem is more than ever a priority for many academic institutions. This possibility paves the way for a more general reconsideration of the governance and information management models that support this data management. The Osuny CMS, a digital commons built on ecological and social values, is proving to be a possibility worth exploring. It provides a secure and sovereign infrastructure for processing data from research stakeholders. The technical solution is part of an ecosystem that forms an alternative organisational system in which data management plays a major role. We present there the relationships between different academic actors in the ecosystem that has been built with, and around, Osuny. It takes the form of an actor network map that distinguishes three modes of interaction : Osuny as an object of academic mediation; research as a driver of the structuring of the Osuny common; Osuny as an object of research. These three types of relationships mobilise different data sets: private contribution data and public data. They also share different purposes that make the Osuny ecosystem a unique ecosystem model, at the crossroads of knowledge and business ecosystems. The modelling of these interactions is part of a broader effort to support, through research, a digital commons of production. It offers an opening for the study of new ethical and sustainable models of data management, thus contributing to the search for a post-growth society.

Arnaud Bridou, Arnaud Levy. Building a resilient and sovereign architecture for academic data. UNINOVIS International Conference – Innovating Together, UNINOVIS, Jan 2026, Malaga, Spain. ⟨hal-05842161⟩ (lien externe)