eea fontana conference room, copenhagen denmark 25-26, april 2002
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International/Interagency Collaboration – Information Technology for Environmental Information & Environmental Data Exchange Network. EEA Fontana Conference Room, Copenhagen Denmark 25-26, April 2002. [email protected]. Division of Early Warning and Assessment, UNEP. UNEP.Net Mission. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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
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UNEP.Net Mission
UNEP.Net – a global environmental information system supported by a collaborative network of partners
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http://www.UNEP.Nethttp://www.UNEP.Net
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•Geographic Portals•Thematic Portals •Cross-cutting Portals
UNEP.Net - portal structure
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Portal Development Plan
Geographic Portal ResponsibilityNorth America * Sioux Falls
Asia and the Pacific * DEWA - Bangkok
Latin America and Caribbean * DEWA - ROLAC
Africa * DEWA - Nairobi
Arctic Grid Arendal
Europe * DEWA – Geneva
South-Eastern Europe Grid Arendal
West Asia * DEWA - ROWA
Antarctica Grid Arendal
* WSSD Priority
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Thematic Responsibility
Atmosphere and Climate * Grid Arendal
Mountains * WCMC
Freshwater * Grid Arendal
Urban Environment * DEWA - Geneva
Socio-economic * DEWA - Geneva
Human Health DEWA - Nairobi
Biodiversity WCMC
* WSSD Priority
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Thematic ResponsibilityCoral Reefs WCMC
Ecosystems WCMC
Forests WCMC
Protected areas WCMC
Energy DEWA - Nairobi
Environmental Vulnerability and Early Warning
DEWA - Nairobi
Marine and coastal GRID Arendal
Soil, land and desertification Sioux Falls
* WSSD Priority
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Cross-cutting Responsibility
State of Environment * Grid Arendal
Environmental
Legislation *
DEWA - Nairobi
Vital Graphics * Grid Arendal
GEO dataportal * DEWA - Geneva
* WSSD Priority
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Global Network
GEO
INFOTERRA
WCMC
GRID
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UNEP.Net Management structure
Programme BoardTechnical Coordination Committee
– Partnership Administrative Coordinator– Technical Services Integration– Administrative Coordinator
Development teams– Nairobi, Arendal, Geneva, Bangkok,
Bahrain, Cambridge, Sioux Falls and Mexico
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UNEP.Net Development Guidelines
Design templateMetadata catalogue (Environment Directory)
Project manual
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World-wide management of environmental knowledge
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Conceptual Model
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(Meta-) Address & Data Classes
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
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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
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