1. Results and perspectives
Knowledge Inventory for hydrogeology research
KINDRA project:
Results and perspectives
35th CIS Groundwater Working Group
Vienna, October 9th, 2018
Marco Petitta
Coordinator of H2020 KINDRA project
Department of Earth Sciences, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
Coordinator of the Panel of Experts in Hydrogeology of European Federation of Geologists
Horizon 2020
Grant Agreement n°

2. Making Groundwater visible, accessible & treasured
Aims of the project ( )
To create an inventory of GW knowledge and use the inventory to identify critical research challenges in line with the implementation of the WFD and new innovation areas within integrated water resources management based on the latest research.
Making Groundwater visible, accessible & treasured
Making groundwater visible:
by dissemination activity along the project, but also raising its role on technical and decision-makers tables inside the “water” community
Making groundwater accessible:
By classifying groundwater research & knowledge, intersecting themes in a multidisciplinary approach with reference to societal challenges, and collecting existing information in a public access metadata tool (EIGR)
Making groundwater treasured:
By analyzing gaps&trends in groundwater research & knowledge, to identify actions aimed at recognize the fundamental role of groundwater resources in Europe (policy support, research development, knowledge sharing, etc.)

3. Classification of groundwater research
A list of about 280 keywords have been organized in a tree hierarchy, identifying three main categories: Societal Challenges (SC), Operational Actions (OA) and Research Topics (RT). In each of these three categories, 5 overarching groups have been defined for easy overview of main research areas, representing level 1. The intersections among SC, OA and RT define the coordinates of each information groundwater related
Societal Challenges
Mapping
Research Topics
Climate & environ.
Energy
Food
Health
Policy & innovation
modelling
monitoring
Water supply
Operational Actions
Assessment and Management
Math & phys
Geography
Chemistry
Biology
Geology

4. EIGR User Interface: based on Geonetworks.
The European Inventory of Groundwater Research EIGR: >2200 records published 04
EIGR User Interface: based on Geonetworks.

5. Content of EIGR : occurrence of the three main categories04

6. EIGR: not only research but also knowledge
Not only peer review papers, but mainly reports, guidelines, databases, etc.
Grey and national literature are included!
Research and applied research projects (e.g. EU and Interreg projects)
Technical reports and guidances
Surveys including relevant data and maps
Consulting reports for ministries and other authorities
Books and book chapters, monographs, etc.
Peer review papers
Databases

7. Gap Analysis conducted on EIGR content and compared with SCOPUS content
Hydrogeological significance has been checked in EIGR metadata (“quality assurance”)
GW properties
GW quality
GW budget
GW use
GW & environment

8. Content of EIGR : Research & knowledge classes
Grey literature and national literature are included!
SC Climate, Environment and Resources Classes 1&2
SC Climate, Environment and Resources Classes 3&4

9. Challenges/Lessons/Conclusions
Collection of papers/report/databases/grey literature (2/3 of records) on groundwater issues previous scattered among EU
Adoption of a new classification hierarchy by keywords and 3 main categories (societal challenges, operational actions, research topics)
Inserted metadata (more than 2200 records from 20 countries) subjected to a gap&trend analysis
Involvement of the hydrogeological community, including researchers and pratictioners, both as users and as editors (future insertion of new records, access ensured by KINDRA partners)
Final results to be used for EU policy support and implementation of water directives (recommendations)
Publication of detailed results in on going on international journals. For additional information, read the open access paper:
Petitta et al., 2018, Italian Journal of Groundwater, 7 (1)

10. Next step: integration with other projects
Integration of KINDRA results in new projects is recommended, to extoll groundwater information at EU level.
Possible developments include:
adopt and/or test our KINDRA classification system in GW researches (e.g. GeoERA)
increase the number of records of EIGR inserting metadata related to activities and existing databases (“harvesting”) by Geological Surveys and/or Environmental Ministries
integrate our platform with the ICT platform of GeoERA (EGDI) and with other databases/projects

11. Thanks for your attention!