New Case Study: “Data Management: New Tools, New Organization, and New Skills in a French Research Institute”

The following article was recently published in LIBER Quarterly (The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries).
Title
Data Management: New Tools, New Organization, and New Skills in a French Research Institute
Author
Caroline Martin
Irstea
Colette Cadiou
Irstea
Emmanuelle Jannès-Ober
Irstea
Source
LIBER Quarterly. 27(1); 2017
doi.org/10.18352/lq.10196
Abstract

In the context of E-science and open access, visibility and impact of scientific results and data have become important aspects for spreading information to users and to the society in general. The objective of this general trend of the economy is to feed the innovation process and create economic value. In our institute, the French National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture, Irstea, the department in charge of scientific and technical information, with the help of other professionals (Scientists, IT professionals, ethics advisors…), has recently developed suitable services for the researchers and for their needs concerning the data management in order to answer European recommendations for open data. This situation has demanded to review the different workflows between databases, to question the organizational aspects between skills, occupations, and departments in the institute. In fact, the data management involves all professionals and researchers to asset their working ways together.

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