EEA Fontana Conference Room, Copenhagen Denmark 25-26, April 2002 International/Interagency Collaboration – Information Technology for Environmental Information & Environmental Data Exchange Network Division of Early Warning and Assessment, UNEP [email protected]
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EEA Fontana Conference Room, Copenhagen Denmark
25-26, April 2002
International/Interagency Collaboration – Information Technology for Environmental Information &
Five (5) classes (or categories) are defined:• Address (organisation and employees)• Document (report, country profile, publication etc)• Datasets• Map (GIS system/service)• Project
Each class/category is indexed by the thesaurus, have a defined set of mandatory and optional fields (e.g. title, abstract, description, URL, coordinates, etc) corresponding to the GELOS element set.
Every data class is linked to a person within an institution. Data classes may also be link to other data classes (e.g. a project linked to output documents)
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Address ClassThe address class is divided into two sub classes:
• Institution address • Person address
•Name•Acronym•Director/head•Budget•Type (ngo,un,etc)•Total employees•Description•Scope of work•Email,tel,fax,url•Postal Address
Institution
•Name•Description•Affiliation (GEO,etc)•Scope of work•Email,tel,fax,url•Postal Address
*email is utilised by the system to ease manual maintenance.
Person
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Data Classes
The data classes may have sub classes depending on the class. For example, the document class has nine subclasses defined: book, journal, multimedia, video, article, cd-rom, disks, report.
Data fields collected are dependent on the data class.For example:
Document Project
Description
ISBN
Publisher
Author(s)
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Description
Status
Duration
Thematic Focus
Donors
etc
Multilingu
alformats
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Search & Retrieval
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Thesaurus Lookup
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Update Facility
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On Going Developments
1. Identification of administrative & data nodes
2. Integration of STAP Roster of Experts3. Integration and management of
UNEP/GEF project database and project outputs
4. Interactive/dynamic analysis of meta-content based on search results
5. Integration with DEWA/PMS system6. Incorporation of user feedback
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HTTP://WWW.UNEP.ORG/ENV-DIR
Go to UNEP home page then enter :(forward slash) /ENV-DIR