Discover the new Water & Biodiversity Knowledge Base
Launched in early April, the Water and Biodiversity Knowledge Base is the result of a review conducted by the Documentary Skills Network to promote its expertise and documentary resources, while enriching them with new digital resources.
It is part of OiEau's long-standing partnership with the French Biodiversity Agency to provide free access to all scientific and technical documentation and news on water and biodiversity.
3 questions for Sandrine Clerc, project manager at OiEau
How does this new Knowledge Base relate to the Water & Biodiversity Document Portal?
This Knowledge Base is the result of discussions with members of the Documentary Skills Network. These specialists in document management and knowledge capitalisation have pooled their expertise to reach a new milestone.
The members of the Network are already long-standing partners in the development and maintenance of the Water & Biodiversity Partnership Document Portal, a portal for the dissemination of scientific and technical publications from partner institutions.
The document collections available on the Portal form a reliable and reusable technical backbone for the Water and Biodiversity Knowledge Base. Within this Base, these elements are combined with other digital resources selected by the Network members.
What are the objectives of this Knowledge Base and who is its target audience?
The objectives of this Water & Biodiversity Knowledge Base are to share and disseminate reliable, high-quality digital information on water and biodiversity issues, and to provide support services for research and information processing using artificial intelligence.
The target audience is broad, ranging from citizens seeking information on water and biodiversity issues to decision-makers who need concise, high-quality information in these areas.
A conversational agent is used in this database: what is its role? What does it offer compared to a traditional search engine?
An experimental conversational agent is available on the home page of the Water & Biodiversity Knowledge Base.
Based on the Chat GPT tool, it responds to questions asked innatural language by users and displays answerssummarisedand accompanied by scientific and technical references that it has selected from the Knowledge Base, and only from the Knowledge Base.
AI also enables the translation (into English for now) of queries and summaries of results.
These written answers are what set it apart from a traditional search engine, which provides a list of references to explore one by one.
Developments are planned to further improve the speed of its responses and optimise them. Additional services are also being explored (multilingual translation, creation of graphics, etc.).
Everything depends on the needs and expectations of users. Currently, the two processes (traditional search engine and AI-based conversational agent) are complementary.
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