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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Legat, Rudolf"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Challenges of eEnvironment
    (Environmental Informatics and Industrial Environmental Protection: Concepts, Methods and Tools, 2009) Hřebíčeka, Jiří; Legat, Rudolf
    The White paper of eEnvironment was elaborated by the Ad hoc Committee on eDemocracy of the Council of Europe (CAHDE) in 2007. The Recommendation CM/Rec(2009)1 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to member states on electronic democracy (e-Democracy) specified eEnvironment in more details. The objective is that any citizen can be informed about environmental matters and can use this information for active participation in decision making and environmental protection. Now, eEnvironment is one of the fundaments of eDemocracy and the member of its eFamily like eParticipation and eGovernment. The Commission proposed a Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) by the Communication COM(2008) 46 final in 2008, where it provides the technological and organisation basis for eEnvironment. In 2005 the i2010 strategy: “A European Information Society for growth and employment” was launched by the Commission. One of the objectives was to establish a Single European Information Space offering high-bandwidth communications, rich content and digital services with a marketoriented regulatory framework. During the preparation of EU’s 7th Framework Programme, DG Information Society & Media proposed the development of a Single Information Space in Europe for the Environment (SISE) in 2007. The development of SISE is essential for the support of the development of implementation information and communication technologies (ICT) tools for the SEIS. The Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) initiative of the Commission is one standardisation basis of eEnvironment, which intends to trigger the creation of a European spatial information infrastructure that delivers to the users integrated spatial information services. Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative represents a concerted effort to bring data and information providers together with users, so they can better understand each other and make environmental and security-related information available to the people who need it through new enhanced services. The Commission, itself an important user of GMES, was assigned to coordinate user requirements and identify and develop services relying both on in-situ and remote sensing data needed fro eEnvironment. Thus, GMES realisation could substantially support the development of environmental data monitoring tools for SEIS in collaboration with the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), which seeks to connect the producers of environmental data and decision-support ICT tools with the end users of these products, with the aim of enhancing the relevance of Earth observations to global issues. The end result of GEOSS is to be a global public infrastructure that generates comprehensive, near-real-time environmental data, information and analyses for a wide range of eEnvironment users. In the paper an outline of eEnvironment is given. Its history is presented and problems and challenges of eEnvironment development directions are discussed. Therefore, there are presented how the i2010 strategy and SISE with synergies of SEIS, GMES and GEOSS with using INSPIRE standards and Aarhus Convention clearing house ideas are aiming to European ICT infrastructure for eEnvironemnt in which environmental data and information will be combined with knowledge for decision support to foster environmental protection and sustainable development.
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    Construction, Maintenance and Visualisation of Multilingual Thesauri Experiences using „SuperThes“
    (Sh@ring – EnviroInfo 2004, 2004) Batschi, Wolf-Dieter; Legat, Rudolf; Plini, Paolo; Stallbaumer, Hermann
    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://193.170.161.213:8080/wwwudk/html/de/start.html , German UDK at http://www.udk-gein.de/ 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). UDK-Thesaurus Editorial Board at http://www.cedar.at/wgr_home. CNR at present is working on a new Thesaurus for the Environment. 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, UBA Vienna and TBHS Vienna. It's aim was to build a cooperation in order to develop a new software tool for building and maintaining multi-lingual, poly-hierarchical Thesauri, based on the experiences of the existing Thesaurus software tools used within the UDK co-operation. This tool named SuperThes is now ready for work assignment.
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    E-Government Working Group for Environmental Information in Austria – Moving towards SEIS
    (Environmental Informatics and Industrial Ecology, 2008) Krammer, Hans-Jörg; Legat, Rudolf; Schleidt, Katharina; Nagy, Michael; Mayer, Johannes
    With the Environmental Information Amendment Act (UIG) 2004 (which entered into force on 14.02.2005), Austria transposed the European Directive 2003/4/EC, which ensued from the Aarhus Convention, at federal level, into national law. “Information providing bodies” of the federal government, as well as the provinces and municipalities, must comply with the new requirements especially within the scope of actively providing environmental information. As the INSPIRE Directive (Annexes I – III) shows, nearly every piece of environmental information has a geographical relevance, which must always be considered when designing environmental information systems according to the requirements of the Environmental Information Directive. According to Art. 10 of the Environmental Information Amendment Act 2004, Umweltbundesamt manages a “Coordination Centre for environmental information“ (KUI). This Coordination Centre assists in the exchange of information between the information providing bodies and proposes suitable measures in order to facilitate access to environmental information for the applicants (i.e. those seeking such information) and henceforth secure the high quality of environmental information. The most urgent function of the Coordination Centre for environmental information is thus the development of “recommendations for structuring available information in compliance with the Directive”. Such systemisation shall ensure that environmental information is progressively made available and disseminated to the public and that this information, according to modern standards and within the meaning of the Recitals and Article 7 of the Directive, shall be made available in particular by electronic information and communication technologies. In order to promote the standardised systemisation of environmental information on Internet portals and to ensure a joint approach for implementing the requirements under the Environmental Information Act 2004, a process of cooperation between the federal government and the provinces (eGovernment process) was initiated within the framework of “platform digital Austria”.
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    Environmental Public Sector Information – The present path to increasing transparency and democracy
    (Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Environmental Informatics - Informatics for Environmental Protection, Sustainable Development and Risk Management, 2013) Pillmann, Werner; Legat, Rudolf; Hrebicek, Jiri
    This paper intends to provide insight in current political decisions and administrative requirements for production, processing and dissemination of environmental information. It should stimulate the discussion between the demand for exchange of environmental knowledge and some leading-edge experiences of ICT applications in the Environmental Informatics network. It is demonstrated, that environmental informatics provides currently a substantial toolbox with eEnvironment services for information integration in a Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) with ecologic and economic relevance within the Digital Agenda 2020. In the paper a sketch of a European environmental information production is given and conclusions are drawn for further research in the area of Environmental Informatics.
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    Harmonisierter Zugang zu Umweltinformationen für Öffentlichkeit, Politik und Planung: Der Umweltdatenkatalog UDK im Einsatz
    (Umweltinformatik ’00 Umweltinformation für Planung, Politik und Öffentlichkeit, 2000) Swoboda, Walter; Kruse, Fred; Legat, Rudolf; Nikolai, Ralf; Behrens, Sven
    The Umweltdatenkatalog (UDK = Environmental data catalogue) is a metainformation system for locating environmental information available in public authorities. The UDK is introduced in Austria and Germany. This article addresses problems and solutions concerning harmonisation of metainformation. Special interest is given to aspects of collecting and querying metainformation as well as the use of UDK as a meta component of other information systems. The newly developed Virtual UDK allows to start a parallel query in the Internet applications of all involved UDK co-operation partners.
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    Shared Terminology for the Single Environmental Information System (SEIS)
    (Environmental Informatics and Industrial Environmental Protection: Concepts, Methods and Tools, 2009) Bandholtz, Thomas; Fock, Joachim; Legat, Rudolf; Nagy, Michal; Schleidt, Katharina
    The European conference of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU “TOWARDS eENVIRONMENT - Opportunities of SEIS and SISE: Integrating Environmental Knowledge in Europe”1, March 25-27, 2009, Prague, Czech Republic, hosted the eEnvironment Terminology2 workshop about Environmental terminology and its semantics as important instruments for discovery, understanding, and integration of any kind of accessible information. Eleven contributions from five European member states presented domain-specific and interdisciplinary examples and discussed common design issues such as terminology structure models, cross-referencing, symmetric vs. asymmetric multilingualism, identity and reference, publishing terminology in the Web, and linking environmental data to such published terminology. In a final recommendation the participants identified general vocabulary use cases, current trends and future requirements.
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    „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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    “SuperThes” An International Model of Sharing Knowledge, Data, Information & Experiences
    (Informatics for Environmental Protection - Networking Environmental Information, 2005) Batschi, Wolf-Dieter; Legat, Rudolf; Plini, Paolo; Stallbaumer, Hermann
    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, Umweltbundesamt Berlin, Umweltbundesamt Vienna and the company TBHS, Vienna. It's aim was to build a co-operation in order to develop a new software tool for building and maintaining multi-lingual, poly-hierarchical Thesauri, based on the experiences of the existing Thesaurus software tools build and used within the UDK co-operation. This tool named SuperThes is now ready for work assignment and has already been presented on Enviro- Info 2002 in Vienna and on EnviroInfo 2004 in Geneva:
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    The Political and Economic Power of Open Environmental Information
    (Environmental Infomatics - Stability, Continuity, Innovation: Current trends and future perspectives based on 30 years of history, 2016) Pillmann, Werner; Legat, Rudolf