OiEAU ANNUAL REPORT - 2019

The reference portal www.documentation.eauetbiodiversite.fr Since its establishment, OiEau has focused its expertise on the sharing of knowledge drawn from documentation, which is entirely digitalized today. This activity is fully in line with the will of the public authorities to give a wider scope to Science and an easier, copyright-free, reusable and interoperable provision of public documen- tary resources. The tools developed by OiEau include the Water and Biodiversity Partnership Documentary Por- tal, established in 2009 with the support of the French Agency for Biodiversity (OFB). Centra- lizing more than 86,000 scientific and technical documentary resources, and regularly enriched, this Web portal is a benchmark in terms of sha- ring with very diverse audiences (mainly docu- mentation professionals, researchers, engineers, technicians in the fields of water and biodiver- sity). This grey literature, free of copyright, co- mes from more than twenty organizations with varied know-how and expertise (Water Agencies, Ifremer, INRAE, Pôles relais, Parc national des Ecrins, Parc national de la Réunion, BRGM, Wa- ter Boards), federated in a network with OFB and OiEau joint facilitation. A new identity and a more fluid layout of the portal's home page were established in 2019. Thanks to close collaboration between these contributors, the selection and promotion of some documents were optimized. For example, a new service allows users to customize their own do- cument selections. In view of the portal's transition to the era of inte- roperability and Semantic Web, document meta- data have been the subject of an in-depth work. An intelligent and dynamic link with the "Water and aquatic environments" glossary has been set up in the various portal’s documentary records. Likewise, a link to the thesaurus was made pos- sible. Any visitor can thus benefit from reliable and expert-validated definitions on water-related issues. contributors 27 2 . 000 86.856 documentary records linked documents 57.936 followers to Twitter account 655 scoops on the Scoop.It page of the network 9 thematic zooms published 20