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Some thoughts to realignment of PortalU
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2013
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Shaker Verlag
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Environmental information is the basis for improving the environmental situation in the EU. The challenge poses the
tailoring of information to a defined group of interest and not only the technical possibility to retrieve the environmental
information. Even though, the technical infrastructure for retrieving public environmental information is the
first step. Hence, the clear understanding of the needs of the general public is essential for a successful environmental
information portal for the interest group general public . What does this mean referring to the German Environmental
Information Portal PortalU? Since the launch of PortalU the focus of the portal is set on making available official
environmental information especially on German Federal Republic and Federal States level. Currently, information
from web pages represents the greatest amount of information. In contrast, information from environmental data catalogs
and further data bases represent a smaller amount of information within PortalU. But quantity itself does not
tell anything about the demand of a target group. The experience of the last years has shown that environmental interested
citizens use mainly general search engines like Google to find information from public environmental web
pages. Thus it would be worth thinking about a realignment of PortalU. The idea of a prospective alignment of PortalU
is to concentrate on important environmental information, which is not easily found via Google and other general
search engines. This information is mainly provided via environmental data catalogs and possibly further data
bases. Some thoughts about the potential form and design of a respectively aligned environmental portal are discussed
in the paper.