9.2 Data Management, New Tools, New Organisation, and New Skills in the French Research Institute Irstea
Creators: name: Caroline Martin, Colette Cadiou and Emmanuelle Jannes-Ober
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: data management, skills, tools, Irsea, France

description: In the context of E-science and open access, the visibility and impact of scientific results and data have become an important stake in its spread to users and society in the whole. The objective is to encourage the innovation process and create economic value. In the French National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture, Irstea (1), the department in charge of scientific and technical information, with the help of other professionals, e.g. scientists, IT professionals and ethics advisers, has recently developed services for researchers and their data management needs in order to meet open data European recommendations. This situation has required reviewing different workflows between databases, questioning organisational aspects between skills, occupations, and departments in the institute. In fact, the data management involves all professionals and researchers in assessing their working methods together. These services proposed at the moment are : Guidelines on data management, archiving and spreading Managing a quality process on data management (ISO 9000 Quality certification) Training sessions and seminars in the Institute to share this knowledge and to point out new skills and new transversal working methods. In particular, it is a management approach to support staff in future changes to the skills of librarians in a research institution by creating a training plan, and the implementation of an STI operational organisation to meet future challenges in scientific research. Developing services as DOI creation, as the development of ‘IrsteaData’, a catalogue of datasets, as an important new part of our data publication system and based on close collaboration between librarians, scientists, technicians, IT professionals and lawyers. Working on our vocabularies: as we have opened our institutional repository ( CemOA) , we are working on the mapping of our referentials with major vocabularies for all our research products( mapping of our Irstea thesaurus with Agrovoc and Gemet thesauri) and we plan to use Orcid, Geonames as well). These new services have questioned the different workflows especially for the deposit process of data publication and the management of the interoperability between the Institute’s databases. Irstea, the National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture, is a public institute under the joint supervision of the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Agriculture in France. Irstea has built a multidisciplinary and systemic approach to three domains, water, environmental technologies and land, which today form the basis of its strength and originality. The appropriation of scientific results is a very important mission of the institute, which wishes to act as a link between practitioners and scientists, and represents a collaborative space dedicated to the co-construction of knowledge. <strong>Caroline Martin </strong>is a research engineer and a lawyer with a Master’s in Geopolitics, a Master’s in ‘information management’ from IEP Paris, and an MBA in strategic information management (2014). She joined CNRS (in 2004) as information manager for the research unit which developed decision- making tools concerning scientific issues dedicated to elected people. Within this research unit, she developed a European network of scientific mediation on the science/society dialogue. She has explored dialogue between science and society from 2008 as chief editor of the scientific and technical journal ‘Sciences Eaux &amp; Territoires’ (www.set-revue.fr) at Irstea (Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture). ‘Sciences Eaux &amp; Territoires’ is an open access e-journal for the transfer of knowledge from research to practice in the environmental sciences and technologies. The journal focuses on the inter-disciplinary perspectives of the scientific topic to propose global, synthetic and practical answers to questions from the perspective of practitioners. She works on content marketing and digital strategies to reach the targeted public for the journal. She is in charge of scientific and technical information advocacy for the Department of STI and Prospective of Irstea as well, and she coordinates the teams working on open access, scientific archives and research data management.