Sandre
Service d'administration nationale des données et des référentiels sur l'eau
Sandre stands for « Service d’Administration Nationale des Données et des Référentiels sur l’Eau », [French National Service for Water Data and Common Repositories Management] (Sandre : http://sandre.eaufrance.fr). The Sandre establishes the common water data language of the French Water Information System (SIE : Système d’Information sur l’Eau, see Eaufance : http://www.eaufrance.fr), and is lead by the « Office National de l’Eau et des Milieux Aquatiques » (Onema : http://www.onema.fr). Its technical secretariat is entrusted to International Office for Water/Office International de l’Eau (IOW/OIEau : http://www.oieau.fr).
Missions
The Sandre is in charge of describing water data and defining technical scenarios to allow data interchange between producers, users and databanks. These data are based on reference datasets (code lists) managed by the Sandre.
Services
The Sandre makes available specification documents (1) free of charge for water data interchanges. It maintains a permanent helpdesk for implementation of these (2). It manages reference datasets (code lists - ex : taxa, monitoring parameters...) (3).
(1) Sandre specification documents are recommendations freely available for the definition, interchange and dissemination of water data and datasets. These documents help designing databases, exchange files, web services, etc.
(2) Sandre technical support is a helpdesk for the use of Sandre’s specifications. The Sandre proposes especially compliance checks. Compliance checks are test sets implemented and applied to a system (software, databases, etc) to check its compliance to Sandre‘s specifications.
(3) Sandre reference datasets are elementary alphanumerical (ex : chemical substances code lists ) or geographic information (BDCarthage via the online metadata catalogue or the geoviewer) whose use is free of charge, and necessary for the well functioning of a system (software such as LIMS, databases, etc).