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Working within the Information and Communication unit of the INRA, Hubert Pampouille is responsible for the putting into place and the following up of the information systems which characterise the research activities of the Institute.

The system for describing INRA's research activities: production and diffusion methods.

Parallel session B.4 and Demonstration
(parallel session C)

INRA, the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, is the French public organisation in charge of conducting research in the fields of agriculture, agro-food-industry and environment. The system for describing INRA's activity is based on a model for representing information which links together the basic entities of the institute: research themes (activities), structures (laboratories), teams, people and results (publications).

Technical choices have been influenced by the arrival of the Web. Each research unit is responsible for providing the necessary information to describe its activity. This information can be consulted by browsing HTML pages. Direct searching is also possible as well as downloading, producing directories and establishing indicators.

This system has been in use for 3 years and we are now working towards a programme whereby data are continously updated.

After this experience it seems necessary to find a compromise between producing one centralized information system and specific systems set up directly by laboratories to describe their activities.

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