1. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency Management of Environmental Information in the European Information and Observation Network (EIONET) Thom Pick, European Topic Centre on Catalogue of Data Sources, Hannover Hannu Saarenmaa, European Environment Agency, Copenhagen Kirsti Lounamaa, TietoEnator, Helsinki presented by Matthias Menger European Topic Centre on Catalogue of Data Sources, Hannover/Germany matthias.menger@numis.niedersachsen.de

2. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency The Agency... The European Environment Agency (EEA)

3. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency The European Environment Information and Observation Network (EIONET) EIONET

4. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency A Network of Networks EEA NRC NRC NRC NRC NFP ETC EU National Data Providers Coordination Eurostat OECD National Data Providers Coordination UNEP National Data Providers Coordination Other National Data Providers Coordination National Level EEA NRC NRC NFP ETC European Level EIONET Reporting Sytem Spatial levels

5. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency Current Situation Eurostat ECEEAOECDUNEP The Public and Decision-Makers ETC DG NFP and other National Authorities National Env Centres Other DG

6. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency Target Situation EurostatECEEAOECDUNEP The Public and Decision-Makers ETC DG Other NFP and other National AuthoritiesNRC REPORTNET

7. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency ReportNet

8. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency Directory Manage information on persons, organisations, roles, and contact details

9. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency Repository Place for deliveries of data, information, and knowledge to the international reporting system

10. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency Content Registry Keeps track of the deliveries of data sets to the international reporting system, and other content.

11. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency Content Registry - Basic Concept Repositories Data Descriptions Content registry refere to Metadata Data RDF, DCES harvest metadata

12. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency Content Registry- Basic Concept Transfer of metadata from services (repository) to CR Put it into RDF, send to CR when requested – RDF generated on the fly – RDF pre-saved (Scenario for most of the services) Send it as objects via SOAP calls – requires an API wrapper at the service side (Scenario for CIRCA)

13. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency Content Registry- Basic Concept Metadata transfer with RDF Store into CR-DB... Store RDF into file system <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://eea.eu.int/sdrat4"> Jensen Signals 2002 English Report EU follow up of Signals 2001 78890...

14. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency Metadata Infrastructure for integrated EIONET Services

15. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency Data Dictionary Registry for other applications and projects to refer to and share data definitions Stores definitions of data elements, their details and status.Browse, search, import, export functions Element:Longitude The measure of the angular distance on a meridian east or west of the prime meridian. +/-DDD.dd to +/-DDD.dddddd where D=degree, d=decimal degree, + = East and - = West of the prime meridian. A point on the prime meridian is Eastern Hemisphere; the 180th meridian is Western. Aggregate:Station ……. …….

16. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency Obligations Descriptions of the needs of data and information

17. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency Dependencies of ReportNet components National data- bases and systems Public web services DEM Direc- tory Reposi- tory Obliga- tions Data Dictio- nary Content Registry Indi- cators Search Na- Mod

18. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency System Architecture Content Registry JDBC Database Handling Business logic Import / Export logic Browsing, searching & modifying logic User Interface shell RDF repository HTTP Server Java Runtime Environment WWW Browser Applications data exchange modules data warehouses CIRCA... HTTP HTML XML SOAP

19. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency Multilingual Aspect - GEMET metainformation contain keywords of the General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus consists of ~5400 terms translated into 19 European languages polyhierarchical includes synonyms ‘sorted’ by environmental themes GEMET is used also for discovery

20. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency CDS GELOS GILS Dublin Core Mapping GELOS against DC

21. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency Bridges

22. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency Swedish Environet Swedish EnviroNet: DCES with its own extensions (DCQ)

23. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency DC and Environmental Information Environmental information resources become increasingly available through the internet. EIONET is adopting DCES for description and discovery of its information resources by: extending DCES and DCQ with the ‘missing’ elements and qualifiers, while fitting them with their domain specific themes and defining an individual namespace for each data element. ReportNet is the approach to integrate services based on DC.

24. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency The End... matthias.menger@numis.niedersachsen.de...is just the beginning thom.pick@numis.niedersachsen.de

25. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency DC: Environment InterestGroup... The Idea for such open forum might be: to collect information on usage of DC in the environmental domain, to give guidance of the use of DC in the environmental domain, to install a forum for discussion of issues concerning DC with respect to environmental information resources, to develop an application profile for the environmental domain, based on DC to establish the representation of the environmental domain and their issues in DCMI (and vice versa?)

26. Matthias Menger, DC-2001, Tokyo / Japan European Environment Agency DC:Environment InterestGroup... to promote interoperability within the environmental domain through the use of dublin core to liaise with other communities in the environmental domain that do not use DC for their resources explore the possibilities to set up a DCMI Working Group for Environment matthias.menger@numis.niedersachsen.de thom.pick@numis.niedersachsen.de