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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Logean, Antoine"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Building a Sustainable Information System in the Domain of Chemical and Biological Safety
    (Innovations in Sharing Environmental Observations and Information, 2011) Menger, Matthias; Ackermann, Patrick; Bandholtz, Thomas; Jaspert, Rainer; Logean, Antoine
    This article gives a big picture of an innovative strategy to handle change in an application which supports assessment processes related to legal obligations of the Federal Environment Agency, Division IV Chemical Safety. Changes affect the data structures that describe the environmental impact of chemical. The solution is based on a data type construction kit, a Domain Specific Language (DSL) on top of XML schema, and dynamic XML processing. The solution enables modifications of the data structures at runtime, even without restarting the application. We do not claim a multiple-purpose solution, but one which is tailored to the common patterns of daily work in Division IV Chemical Safety. This is exactly why it may serve as a blue print for several similar application challenges in a different domain context.
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    Sustainability through Open Data : Examples from Switzerland
    (EnviroInfo Dessau 2012, Part 2: Open Data and Industrial Ecological Management, 2012) Logean, Antoine; Lavrovsky, Oleg; Gassner, Peter; Straumann, Ralph
    Although the term “sustainability” can be traced back to as early as 1761 in forest management, it was unknown to most of the wider public two decades ago. Driven by publications of scientific evidence showing the potential impact of greenhouse gases on global climate change as well as the prediction of the end of the oil age, popular awareness of ecological challenges facing our planet has increased – today, the topic of sustainability has arrived in the mainstream (with all the downsides, such as hijacking of the term). While awareness alone is certainly not sufficient, it is a fundamental and necessary step towards the establishment of new models for economic, societal and ecologic development. In this paper we show how the Open Data movement can address some of the complex challenges that sustainable development needs to solve. Examples of software applications (“apps”) and data analyses and visualizations developed in grassroots projects at so-called “make.opendata.ch hackathons” in Switzerland will demonstrate how the Open Data movement can be part of the solution by bridging the realms of economy, ecology and society in sustainable development.