Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing: the case of France & INRA

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1 Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing: the case of France & INRA Diane Le Hénaff French National Institute for Agricultural Research French research is conducting in 85 universities & in research institutes. The main research institutes are: CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research the largest French institute). CNRS is also the largest fundamental research organization in Europe. CNRS's annual budget represents a quarter of French public spending on civilian research. INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural research second largest institute in France). INRA is ranked 2nd in the world and 1st in Europe for publications in the agricultural sciences, and plant and animal sciences, INRA carries out mission-oriented research for high-quality and healthy foods, competitive and sustainable agriculture and a preserved and valorized environment. CIRAD, CEMAGREF, IRD, IFREMER in the field of agriculture, environment, aquaculture and food. Most of them signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access. If all universities don t have an institutional open archive yet, all the research institutes in French uses one at least or set up their own one. HAL (Hyper Article on Line) was developed in 2001 by the CNRS. It became the national platform in 2006 when all universities & research institutes signed a convention in order to provide HAL with their scientific papers. In Feb. 2011, HAL has more than full text scientific papers.

2 This convention is an important political decision in France but it remains several technical and open access institutional political issues. s. Actually, it is possible to harvest HAL but HAL never wanted to harvest and expects from the other repositories to use its webservice to export metadata and full-text. full text. In 2006, it was not possible for all institutions to adapt their existing repositories to connect to HAL via its webservice. But the main issue is the difference between HAL guidelines and open access policies for some research institutes. institutes. For INRA, papers should remain in the institutional repository and could be removed under author s wish - it is an intellectual property issue. Since 2010, INRA has an ambitious open access policy based on an internal mandatory policy for researchers and a dissemination plan towards partners.

3 VOA3R, Organic Lingua are two European projects in the field of open access and agriculture. Agris is the FAO repository. Eau France and Portail de l environnement are two French rench portals in the INRA research area. It seems more relevant for me, as responsible of the INRA open access policy to disseminate and share INRA production with partners & portals in the INRA research area than within our country. Research is international.

4 This dissemination plan will be efficient in 2012 with the new version of ProdInra, the INRA open archive. The objective is to increase the visibility of INRA at the international level. It is really important to get more funds for research and it helps to highlight INRA expertise and INRA experts. Making this infrastructure efficient is not easy because of technical issues: protocols chosen by the service providers & portals are sometimes different (OAI, FTP, specific webservice ) ervice ) and also the required format (AGRIS, DC, DC+LOM, HAL, REPEC ) This infrastructure is the first step of a more ambitious one. INRA has a wish to collect datasets produced by the researchers and to identify more productions than papers produced. INRA is interested in tracking researchers activities like being a reviewer in a journal, activity to setup a training course at university, organizing international congress These information and datasets are different than the papers. A new, internal, infrastructure has to be designed. It would include the knowledge division applications: ontologies management, scientific knowledge & expert systems. It has been decided to build it upon linked data. Different triple stores will have to interconnect to add more value and allow more outputs from this infrastructure. infrastructure

5 Overview of some digital data in French repositories Overview of French digital repositories or portals 1 Nb of websites in 2008 Nb of websites in 2009 Institutional Open Archives Thematic Open Archives National open archive or portals 7 11 Scientific Portals 4 23 Other 1 16 Overview of data or information available (public access) Data available in 2008 Data available in 2008 Institutional Open Archives Thematic Open Archives National open archive or portals Scientific Portals Kind of data/information available on these French repositories Example of the grey literature in 2009 The part of the grey literature among the repository's content is: Institutional Open Archives 94% Thematic Open Archives 37% Case of scientific pictures 1 Source :

6 HAL has provided a specific repository (MEDIHAL) for archiving scientific pictures in France, since It now offers up to Focus on ProdInra Number of data Date Number of references Number of FT records Part of Public FT records oct sept janv nov feb Number of data per type of document (public access) Type of document Nb of FT on may Journal articles Books 93 Book chapters 124 Thesis 289 Proceedings 81 Papers 1357 Reports 154 Report chapters 30 Patent 3 Pedagogical materials 6 Posters 15 Maps 0 Film 0 Total 6 254

7 ProdInra is a strategic information system for INRA as it aims at providing bibliometric studies for management boards. The new version is under development and will use standards like: DC, LOM, MODS, Agris, RDFa with very used protocols (OAI, SOAP, FTP). We are thinking of enlarging connections with ontologies, internal knowledge systems as well as integrating datasets & researchers activities to create an INRA scientific information system. Contact : Diane Le Hénaff French National Institute for Agricultural Research lehenaff@versailles.inra.fr