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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Konstantinidis, Stefanie"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Aufbau eines europäischen Bodeninformations-Portals im Rahmen des eContentplus-Projekts GS Soil als Baustein für SEIS auf Basis von PortalU®-Technologie
    (Integratives Datenmanagement – Beispiele aus der Umweltbeobachtung, 2009) Klenke, Martin; Konstantinidis, Stefanie; Kruse, Fred
    The availability and accessibility of environmental information has become a key concern for public and private bodies within Europe in the recent years. The European Environmental Information Directive (EEID, 2003/4/EC), the Directive for establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information (INSPIRE, 2007/2/EC) as well as the newest initiatives of the EU like the Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) and the Single Information Space for the Environment (SISE) emphasizes the European-wide need to improve the access to environmental information. Especially the web-based supply of the huge amount of spatial environmental data deserves particularly attention because high organisational efforts and financial expenses are necessary to improve the access to this kind of data. While the INSPIRE Directive and its Implementing Rules (IR) give the framework to establish a European spatial data infrastructure, vital obstacles in reference to harmonization and interoperability of data and services as well as in reference to the organisational structure are not removed yet. The project GS Soil, which was handed in as proposal in the eContentplus call 2008 in June 2008, aims to make a contribution to remove these obstacles by establishing a European web portal for soil information (GS Soil Portal). Within the project 34 partners from 17 European Member States are involved. Soil data are thereby provided for all 17 states mainly on national level and partly on regional level. InGrid, the technology of the German Environmental Information Portal PortalU®, will be used as technical base in the project. It will be used to build up a European GS Soil Portal, where all decentralized distributed soil information of the 18 states is bundled.
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    Building a Soil Information Portal for Europe based on the PortalU Technology
    (Environmental Informatics and Industrial Environmental Protection: Concepts, Methods and Tools, 2009) Feiden, Katharina; Klenke, Martin; Kruse, Fred; Konstantinidis, Stefanie
    The availability and accessibility of environmental information has become a key concern for public and private bodies within Europe in the recent years. The European Environmental Information Directive (EEID, 2003/4/EC), the Directive for establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information (INSPIRE, 2007/2/EC) as well as further initiatives of the EU like the Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) emphasizes the European-wide need to improve the access to environmental information. Especially the web-based supply of the huge amount of spatial environmental data deserves particularly attention because high organisational efforts and financial expenses are necessary to improve the access to this kind of data. While INSPIRE and its Implementing Rules (IR) give the framework to establish a European spatial data infrastructure, vital obstacles in reference to harmonization and interoperability of data and services as well as in reference to the organisational structure are not removed yet. The project GS Soil “Assessment and strategic development of INSPIRE compliant Geodata-Services for European Soil Data” aims to make a contribution to remove these obstacles by establishing a European web portal for soil information (GS Soil Portal). Within the project 34 partners from 18 European member states are involved and the project is co-funded by the European Community programme eContentplus. The project duration is from June 2009 until May 2012. Overall it will focus on data organisation, data harmonisation as well as semantic and technical interoperability with the objective to produce seamless spatial information in terms of INSPIRE (European Union 2007). Both the description and harmonisation of European spatial soil data and the operation of a corresponding spatial data infrastructure will take centre stage. Out of the 34 partners, soil data are provided for all 18 involved European member states mainly on national level and partly on regional level. That means 67 % of the 27 European Member States will provide soil data for the project. These data build a sufficient base to analyse and improve the access to the different kinds of digital content. As technical base InGrid®, the technology of the German Environmental Information Portal PortalU®, will be used to build up the GS Soil Portal, where all decentralized distributed soil data are bundled. In the GS Soil Portal all soil related information from web pages, over data bases to data catalogues will be made available and accessible. Search results will be ranked and listed in shared result lists and spatial soil data from OGC compatible Web Mapping Services (WMS) and Web Feature Services (WFS) will be visualized in a map viewer.
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    Current state of the German Environmental Information Portal PortalU®
    (Environmental Informatics and Industrial Environmental Protection: Concepts, Methods and Tools, 2009) Konstantinidis, Stefanie; Kruse, Fred; Klenke, Martin
    The German environmental information portal PortalU® is now more than three years accessible via www.portalu.de for both citizens and environmental experts. This paper aims at drawing up an interim balance of the development from PortalU®. What was the starting point for PortalU®? What was the motivation to build up the portal? Which features offer PortalU® today? And which development perspectives arise for the technology from today’s point of view? Both important technical aspects as well as important organizational and content aspects will be thereby high lighted.
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    PortalU®, a Tool for Building a Single Information Space in Europe (SISE) for the Environment
    (Environmental Informatics and Industrial Environmental Protection: Concepts, Methods and Tools, 2009) Kruse, Fred; Konstantinidis, Stefanie; Klenke, Martin
    The German Environmental Information Portal, PortalU®, provides one-stop access to government-owned environmental information in Germany. PortalU® gives access to more than 2,500,000 web pages and more then 500,000 data and metadata sets from different national, regional and local authorities. Organizationally PortalU® is the result of a cooperation of the federal government and the 16 German states. PortalU® is build up by the software InGrid®. The software is realized very modular. It includes several interfaces including WMS, CSW and OpenSearch. The portal has a set of viewing components for the visualization of search results, maps and metadata content. A metadata catalog, the InGrid®Catalog, is integrated in the software. Core component of this catalog is the ISOand INSPIRE compliant InGrid®Editor for collection and maintenance of metadata. A concept for the exchange and visualization of monitoring data on the basis of the OGC-defined sensor observation service (SOS) is discussed. It is planed to expand PortalU® on eReporting functionalities. From organizational as well as from technical point of view, PortalU® could be a prototype for a pan-European shared environmental information system and a first step to a Single Information Space in Europe (SISE).
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    Some thoughts to realignment of PortalU
    (Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Environmental Informatics - Informatics for Environmental Protection, Sustainable Development and Risk Management, 2013) Konstantinidis, Stefanie; Kruse, Fred
    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.