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Service Orientation in Environmental Information Systems
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2005
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Masaryk University Brno
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Environmental information needs and environmental processes must reflect the fact that many actors of very different types and interests are involved in environmental activities. The actors can be international bodies, government offices, municipal institutions, (global) enterprises, citizens (often without any deeper information technology knowledge) and their activity societies like Greenpeace. Under these conditions any environmental information system (EnIS) must be able to support collaboration of existing information systems and other software systems. It must be opened for new actors and able to use new software systems. It should further support environmental processes (e.g. actions during environment accidents). We show that all these requirements can be realized if EnIS are service oriented and have specific service-oriented architecture (SOA). EnIS therefore can use experiences, skills, and tools related to service oriented systems. Examples are e-government, information systems of global enterprises. It is even possible to apply commercial tools like Enterprise Service Bus or Enterprise Service Architecture. We will discuss the crucial points of SOA and different variants of SOA applicable in EnIS. We show how the quality of environmental data can influence the architecture of the system.