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A glossary
on water
and aquatic
environments
The glossary on water and aquatic environ-
ments is a collaborative tool, made by
IOWater
with ”ONEMA”’s support, that
results from the pooling of fifty glossaries
since 2010, in order to develop a semantic
datamodel.
It includes about
1,340 terms
currently avai-
lable in English, French and Spanish. This is a
"collaborative" website, which means that
any user can propose to amend it, delete
somewords or addothers. Proposals are eva-
luated by a group of users.
The website
content is entirely free and reusable.
Current efforts are based on the linking of the
glossary terms with “SANDRE” concepts,
Water Thesaurus©, Wikipedia articles
(DBpedia) and the GEMET thesaurus of the
European Environment Agency.
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IOWater, with ”ONEMA”’s support, is
developing ”The technical documents
onwater”Portal,whichprovidesaccess
to over 75,000 documentary notes,
made available by 21 contributor Orga-
nizations:
Ministry of Ecology, ONEMA,
Water Agencies, IOWater, ResearchOrganiza-
tions (IRSTEA, IFREMER, INRA, BRGM),
4 relay centers forwetlands, theWaterOffices
of the Martinique and Reunion and two
scientific journals: Aquatic Living Resources
(ALR) and KnowledgeManagement of Aqua-
tic Ecosystems (KMAE).
This portal meets the requirements of trans-
parency and access to environmental infor-
mation demanded by the International
Aarhus Convention.
A network of water-related documen-
tary skills
has been built around this portal,
a true partnership between the variouswater
stakeholders who share common interests:
the pooling of services and products, the use
of common tools.
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The documentary Portal
on water and aquatic environments
”GEST’EAU”
Promoting sound and sustainable
water resourcesmanagement
IOWater is nowdeveloping the commu-
nity of FrenchWater Development and
Management Plans (SAGE) andEnviron-
ment Contracts (rivers, bays, aquifers),
with ”ONEMA”’s support.
Its goal:
to promote the sharing of know-
ledge between the stakeholders involved in
local procedures for integrated water mana-
gement.
The ”Gest'eau” website recorded more than
1.3million visits in 2015.
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The ”2014 management chart on Research-
Development-Innovation (RDI) on integrated
management of the Loire Basin and its tribu-
taries” was implemented by
IOWater
on
behalf of the
Loire Public Body.
It provides ananalysis of theRDI status regar-
ding the river and its tributaries.
The study focused on the structuring of
research especially through the stakeholders
and donors involved.
Research capacity indicators compared with
bibliometric analysis indicators have shown
the importance of European ERDF and basin
funding (Loire Public Body and Loire-Brittany
Water Agency).
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Loire River Basin
Implementation of a management chart on Research-Development-Innovation
Structuring research in the Loire Basin
and its tributaries (major research units)
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