From research activities to institutional piloting: the challenges of modernizing interfaces and data interoperability

Abstract: Research activities are generally observed and evaluated through the prism of their production and financial elements or team composition. In addition to standardized management indicators and bibliometrics, the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) has been building new indicators for the last ten years, based on the annual regulatory declarations of the Institute's researchers. Different quality management tools allow the evolution of the different interfaces. This source of data, more ''open'' and more ''useful'' through its integration into the Institute's information system, is adapted to the needs of the multi-year management of research at the IRD. The aim is twofold: (1) to make progress in the evaluation of research and in the mastery of information by all actors, (2) to enlighten as many actors as possible via more efficient digital circuits and tools. The purpose of this article is to explain how the IRD is changing the entire production chain and the indicators of researchers' activities to better map scientific activities.