The sixth cross-cutting challenge will be to improve data sharing to support decision-making. By applying the principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR data), this will allow innovative analysis technologies to generate relevant information that can be used by scientists and other stakeholders.

Co-facilitators

GRELLET Sylvain
Sylvain Grellet
FAIR data/interoperability expert, DNG/DATA, BRGM

Presentation

Challenge 6 will contribute to strategy and decision-making based on knowledge and evidence, which are in turn founded on data. Addressing water-related challenges means devising and evaluating actions and policies that integrate the complexity of socio-hydrosystems into current environmental and societal issues. This requires a common body of knowledge shared with a wide variety of data sources, which differ in origin and nature. This diversity incurs significant costs when searching for, retrieving and processing data from different sources; the aim here is to optimize this.

Challenge 6 covers seven main goals and research questions.

Main goals & research questions

  1. Share, provide access to and facilitate the understanding of water data by all, in the interests of knowledge and action
  2. Support strategy and decision-making with knowledge by organizing and sharing data from different sources
  3. Build on what has been learnt, re-examine it and promote the acquisition of new knowledge where necessary
  4. Support the adoption of digital resources (data, services, code, etc.) by the various stakeholders (from scientists to managers), who are all contributors at their own level
  5. Make data easy to find, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR data principles) by creating a set of shared practices through a real shift in paradigm
  6. Set up an information infrastructure focused on data, knowledge and information sharing across disciplinary and institutional boundaries, facilitating the transparent sharing and processing of data and knowledge between scientific institutions and water-related stakeholders
  7. Provide a single platform dedicated to ‘water’ data
Picture of a French agricultural landscape, framed by the key points of Challenge 6 on water-related data

Challenge 6 - Sharing water-related data

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