Data management

For instance, the Water Framework Directive (WFD) sets environmental targets for Member States, as well as requiring them to base their policies on environmental knowledge and to report on progress through monitoring programmes, feeding into the Water Information System for Europe (WISE). Demand for good environmental data management is growing, especially because of the exponential increase in data and their potential reuse through online tools.

Good data management is a prerequisite for the development of knowledge within information systems. Data analysis (regulation, persistence, integrity, etc.) is at the heart of OiEau’s strategy and is applied at all levels, drawing in particular on the best practices and specific information technologies that OiEau has been developing since its inception – especially in the field of data structuring, harmonisation and compatibility, as well as in streamlining data production, collection and storage. More generally, there is a need to ensure that information system tools and data are interoperable. 

OiEau has a permanent team of multilingual scientists with broad-based expertise in the fields of water and environmental management, data quality and standardisation, IT development and digital infrastructure. As a result, OiEau is able to conduct numerous information system design projects at all scales (local, city, regional, national and international) and cover the entire data value chain. 

OiEau can therefore support its partners in better generating environmental data using information from other sources, and to better exploit these data through resources tailored to specific target audiences (decision-makers, experts, citizens, etc.).