SO-DRIIHM: promoting Open Science within the LabEx DRIIHM and improving its Research Data Infrastructure

Poster presenting the ANR Flash call SO-DRIIHM proposal

The "SO-DRIIHM" project has just obtained funding from the Flash Call "Open Science: research practices and open research data" proposed by the ANR in 2019. It is managed by a group of geomatics and IT engineers within the CNRS interdisciplinary network (LabEx DRIIHM - Dispositif de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Interactions Hommes-Milieux) of 13 Human-environment observatories (OHMs). The objective of this project (May 2020 - April 2022) is to optimize the appropriation of the open science approach by the DRIIHM research community through:

·        the organisation of awareness campaigns showing the benefits of data sharing and openness;

·        the co-construction of a more ergonomic and interoperable e-infrastructure, integrating existing tools (metadata geocatalogues, web GIS, photo library, HAL collection, etc.) and accompanying researchers to find, share and (re)use data with the concrete and progressive implementation of the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).

The originality of this project lies in the bottom-up co-construction of the e-infrastructure, involving researchers from the early stages of the project (during DRIIHM seminars and workshops) to jointly identify and support changes in practices throughout the life cycle of the data produced by OHMs. 

This project provides the opportunity to respond to the recommendations of the French National Open Science Plan and to strengthen collaboration between the researchers and the group of OHM referent engineers and scientific coordinators. It also brings together ergonomists and web development specialists (UMR IRIT Toulouse and Makina Corpus) to meet the community's expectations for all observatories.