Recommendations for Best Practices for Data Preservation and Open Science in HEP
Abstract
These recommendations are the result of reflections by scientists and experts who are, or have been, involved in the preservation of high-energy physics data. The work has been done under the umbrella of the Data Lifecycle panel of the International Committee of Future Accelerators (ICFA), drawing on the expertise of a wide range of stakeholders. A key indicator of success in the data preservation efforts is the long-term usability of the data. Experience shows that achieving this requires providing a rich set of information in various forms, which can only be effectively collected and preserved during the period of active data use. The recommendations are intended to be actionable by the indicated actors and specific to the particle physics domain. They cover a wide range of actions, many of which are interdependent. These dependencies are indicated within the recommendations and can be used as a road map to guide implementation efforts. These recommendations are best accessed and viewed through the web application, see https://icfa-data-best-practices.app.cern.ch/
Cite
@article{arxiv.2508.18892,
title = {Recommendations for Best Practices for Data Preservation and Open Science in HEP},
author = {Simone Campana and Irakli Chakaberia and Gang Chen and Cristinel Diaconu and Caterina Doglioni and Dillon S. Fitzgerald and Vincent Garonne and Anne Gentil-Beccot and Fleur Heiniger and Michael D. Hildreth and Julie M. Hogan and Hao Hu and Eric Lancon and Clemens Lange and Kati Lassila-Perini and Olivia Mandica-Hart and Zach Marshall and Thomas McCauley and Harvey Newman and Mihoko Nojiri and Ianna Osborne and Fazhi Qi and Salomé Rohr and Stefan Roiser and Thomas Schörner and Ulrich Schwickerath and Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy and Seema Sharma and Tibor Šimko and Michael Sparks and Graeme Andrew Stewart and Nicola Tarocco and Giacomo Tenaglia and Gustavo Valdiviesso and Antonia Winkler and Christoph Wissing},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.18892},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
These recommendations are best accessed and viewed through the web application, see https://icfa-data-best-practices.app.cern.ch/ Corresponding editor: Kati Lassila-Perini (contact via icfa-data-best-practices-contact at cern.ch)