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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Felluga, Bruno"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    „SuperThes“: A New Software for Construction, Maintenance and Visualisation of Multilingual Thesauri
    (Environmental Communication in the Information Society - Proceedings of the 16th Conference, 2002) Batschi, Wolf-Dieter; Felluga, Bruno; Legat, Rudolf; Plini, Paolo; Stallbaumer, Hermann; Zirm, Konrad L.
    In the last years, a GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus (GEMET) in all the languages of the EU-member states has been developed within the working program of the "European Topic Centre for Catalogue of Data Sources & Thesaurus" (ETC/CDS), European Environment Agency, (EEA). GEMET is meant to support indexing of metadata within the CDS system. At the same time, an environmental Thesaurus based on the Umwelt Thesaurus (UBA Umweltbundesamt, Berlin) was produced in co-operation between Germany and Austria for their common metainformation system "Environmental Data Catalogue" (Umweltdatenkatalog, UDK). Austrian UDK at http://udk.ubavie.gv.at. To manage and maintain both the CDS-Thesaurus and the UDK-Thesaurus, a THESaurus MAINtenance (THESmain) system as well as a tool for visualising thesauri (THESshow) had been constructed by TBHS on behalf of the ETC/CDS and the Germany/Austria UDK-team. THESmain is fully operational since May 1997 for both applications (CDS and UDK). Both GEMET and UDK-Thesaurus are maintained in Vienna. UDK-Thesaurus Editorial Board at http://www.cedar.at/wgr_home. Since 1999, CNR is working on the Environmental Applications Reference Thesaurus (EARTh), a new Thesaurus for the Environment, encompassing and extending GEMET. To fulfil the requirements of future Thesaurus work, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been concluded in late 2000 between CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, UBA Berlin and UBA Vienna. It has the aim to build a co-operation in order to develop a new software tool for building and maintaining multi-lingual, polyhierarchical Thesauri, based on the experiences of the existing Thesaurus software tools used within the UDK co-operation.
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    T-REKS©: a Contribution to the Environmental Information Management through a Computer-Supported Modular Knowledge Organisation System for the Environment
    (Sustainability in the Information Society, 2001) Plini, Paolo; Lucke, Sandra; Baffioni, Claudio; Felluga, Bruno
    The utilisation of computer technology for the management of environmental issues has gained much importance in the last few years. The first reason is related to the increasing attention for environmental problems shown by governmental and non-governmental institutions, industries, opinion groups, professionals, and by the public. The concepts connected with the principle of sustained development have favoured this evolution through a complex route that led to extend the sustainability principle from global level to local level, down to the problems connected with the changes and growth of urban centres and to the daily choices of single citizens (Aalborg Cha rt). The second reason is related to the fast technological development of informatics and related issues. The increasing power of computers, the growing speed of information networks and the standardization of protocols, have favoured a wide circulation of data and information. This interaction between environmental issues and computer technology has produced good results in various fields: we will mention here only three. First, the contribution to the spreading of both environmental formation and information: the new computer instruments have rapidly changed the teaching methods that have been quickly introduced in the field of the environment, as well as of the occupational environment safety. A good example of this trend is offered by the projects financed by the European Program Leonardo daVinci, of EC DG Education and Culture. Important is also the use of environmental information for implementing measures in land management and planning: administrative practices of management and control have been implemented thanks to these new instruments. An example of this is provided by the Italian GAIA (Environmental Management – Environmental Information) and Aquarium Projects, where innovative models for data banks (from data banks to data warehouses) and the GEMET thesaurus (General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus, ETC/CDS - EEA, 1999) have been introduced for classifying data and metadata. Eventually, we would like to mention the ISTresearch programs of theEU, for the development of instruments to be used in transportation planning for the sustainability of metropolitan areas. In this program, the effort aimed not only at harmonising the information on mobility (traffic) characteristics with environmental problems, but also at achieving a dynamic exchange of information. The common denominator of the aforementioned examples postulates the need and the possibility of using a general conceptual scheme for all these projects: a general reference scheme, developed through a common approach, tailored to the different applications in the different projects. In the course of an international endeavour for the development of a multilingual thesaurus for the environment (GEMET, 1999), seven multilingual terminologies, totalling 50.000 terms, have been analysed and handled. These terminologies differed as regards document origin, source language, context, categorisation, level of control, semantic nuances, compliance to ISO norms, quality, and so on. Thus, a contextual frame was needed, to accommodate in a coherent system all the different expressions. This frame had to be controlled, flexible and ready to be applied to disparate environmental information systems. After a series of trials, T-REKS e , the Thesaurus-based Reference Environmental Knowledge System °, has been developed and applied.