1. D2.4.3 Good Practice Catalogue E. Roccatagliata (ICCOPS) NESIS Final Review, 2010.01.20, Bruxelles

2. Good Practices Catalogue  Aim is to derive lessons from Good Practice and exchange experience thanks to the creation of a Good Practices inventory on-line  The Catalogue offers as well a synthesis information sheet – as first orientation for users- with direct access from the website  The Catalogue is done via a structured template to collect information (it allows easy filling, comparison and interpretation) NESIS Final Review, 2010.01.20, Bruxelles

3. In the template for Good Practice, main information items are : Good practice “title" Key-word(s) Theme(s) mainly addressed Country(ies) Outline/General description Short description Kind of practice Drivers Legal aspects Geographical area covered Actors Users Data aspects Origins of data Considered datasets Metadata Information flow Technical implementation/Solutions Infrastructure/System architecture Data logging and transmission Technological description of information services Others Information on the implementation Status of implementation Funding Communication policy Year of start Year of steady state Future planned development(s) Problems, lessons, comments & recommendations References for further info The template to create the Catalogue was structured for easy interpretation and comparison of replies, using as much as possible check-boxes: it brings less dispersed replies, traced to easily comparable fields

4. NESIS Final Review, 2011.01.20, Bruxelles

6. Out of the 43 Practices some are reported also in ANNEX 1 of D6.2: OzoneWeb: streamline of multi-national near real-time environmental data PortalU: metadata management SINAnet: a Country level example (similar to the EEA/EIONET model) Reportnet: the same basic criteria of SEIS Bathing Waters: a Linked data pilot Thesaurus Framework: an example of using Linked Data and SKOS technology NESIS Final Review, 2011.01.20, Bruxelles

7. Current content of the Catalogue 1.Environment Portal Austria 2.SEIS-CAFE Pilot 3.GIS database Of Osogovo Mountains 4.Mediating conflict between urban development and nature conservation 5.Information System of Technical Environment Protection 6.SIRIUS - System of Integration and Management of Information in the Field of Technical Environmental Protection 7.Information System of Statistics and Reporting 8.Czech Environmental Metaportal 9.Environmental Portal 10.Geoportal 11.PortalU 12.NatureFrance, Portal of the SINP 13.GIS Sol - National Interest Group on the Soils 14.Water Information System France 15.UmweltGoogle Environmental Information Portal based on Google Search Technology 16.Interactive map solution - Icelandic nature 17.The Italian Environmental Information and Monitoring System and the SINAnet network 18.GELSO - Best Practice database 19.Portal of Geological Survey of Italy 20.Environmental information sharing between Regional Focal Point of Piemonte and the SINA network 21.BDN (Banche Dati Naturalistiche) 22.Common Thesaurus framework for Nature Conservation 23.National (Lithuanian) Environmental Information System 24.E-Application 25.Ambjent.org.mt Environmental Portal 26.Maltese European Reporting Obligations Database 27.Norway Digital – Norwegian Spatial Data Infrastructure 28.Species Map and Species Observation Service 29.SEIS-CAFE Pilot: 30.Slovak Enviroinfo in 31.Slovakia Protected sites Data 32.Slovakia Water Data 33.Slovak Environmental Index 34.Environmental Video Library – online service 35.Environmental Magazine and online service 36.Access-eGov – Access to e-Government Services 37.Water Information System Sweden (WISS) 38.Bathing Waters Linked data pilot 39.NBN Gateway (National Biodiversity Network Gateway) 40.MESH (Mapping European Seabed Habitats) 41.Near real-time air quality system (Ozone web and PM web) 42.EEA’s Reportnet 43.Spatial Observation Services and Infrastructure In red the Practices added in the final project year

8. Keywords indicated for the Good Practices in the Catalogue

9. Themes addressed by the Good Practices in the Catalogue