Pascal Aventurier has been leading the Regional Scientific Information Team at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research’s (INRA, France) PACA Centre since 2002. He is also co-leader of the scientific information technology group. His focus is on research data, linked open data, open access technologies, knowledge management and controlled vocabularies, as well as researching digital and social tool practices. His team is also exploring the evolution of social networks for academic use. He teaches Scientific and Technical Information at INRA, as well as at ENSSIB and CNAM.

I am young professional for rural development, asserted climate change expert for United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNESCO ACE Focal for Education for Sustainable Development, National Focal Point to Sphere Project and Head of Programme/ Executive Director of the Radanar Ayar Rural Development Association.

- Particularly interested in sharing vocabularies in the agricultural domains.
I use them to enrich textual document in order to search and analyze them.
I am involved in the working group on opening research data at INRA.