The LaCAS project wins the 2024 "Open Science for Research Data" prize
This initiative, part of the second Plan national pour la science ouverte, highlights researchers, projects and research teams working to manage and disseminate data and, for some of them, base their research work on the reuse of data already available.
Category "jury's special mention"
LaCAS is positioned as a reference tool for the areal studies research community. It is a platform developed by the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco), which harvests, aggregates, structures and enriches heterogeneous resources in areal studies from open archives and data warehouses. It classifies and structures these data for editorialization on LaCAS Publications with alignment and linking of heterogeneous data (texts, videos, sounds, images) harvested from multiple warehouses (HAL, Zenodo, Nakala, Gallica, Calame, Isidore, Persée, Open Alex, Semantic Scholar), using and enriching a substantial thesaurus.
LaCAS has received SESAME funding from the Île-de-France region and IdEx funding from Université Paris-Cité.
Jury
The jury for the 2024 edition of the Open Science Prize for Research Data, chaired by Aude Chambodut (Déléguée Scientifique Science Ouverte et Données au CNRS INSU, Physiciste des observatoires à l'Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre de l'Université de Strasbourg) was made up of:
- Mrs Esther Dzalé (GenEval)
- Mr. Roesch Etienne (University of Reading)
- Mr. Hadi Quesneville (INRAE)
- Jean-Denis Vigne (MNHN)
- Julie Vallée (CNRS)
- Olivier Marlet (Université de Tours)
- Pascal Hot (Université Savoie Mont Blanc)