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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Schmid, Holger"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Thematic User Environment for Water Body Information Systems and Beyond
    (The Information Society and Enlargement of the European Union, 2003) Usländer, Thomas; Schmid, Holger; Schmieder, Martin; Stumpp, Jörg
    Today’s powerful programmable software tools in standard office environments, possibly enhanced by a GIS product and a relational database, principally already provide all functions to store, process and visualise environmental information. However, end users prefer to focus on their thematic task instead of customising generic tools. They expect systems that are tailored to their thematic knowledge and support them in the generation of thematic documents – being maps, diagrams or reports. A concept of a thematic user environment based on so-called User-Defined Objects (UDO) has been implemented by Fraunhofer IITB in operational Water Body Information Systems in Germany. UDObased thematic services offer functions from personalised information views, data acquisition, data analysis and quality assurance, maintenance and selection of master and measurement data, generation of thematic documents up to decision support. The presented approach is reusable for other environmental domains and may contribute to a harmonisation of information system concepts, especially for the Common Implementation Strategy of the European Commission for the Water Framework Directive.
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    WaterFrame® A Software Framework for the Development of WFD-oriented Water Information Systems
    (Managing Environmental Knowledge, 2006) Schmid, Holger; Usländer, Thomas
    In Europe, the development of Environmental Information Systems for the water domain is mainly influenced by the requirements of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD). The WFD is a fundamental rethink of the EU water policy aiming at sharing water data across administrative borders. Its implementation therefore is also a challenge for the supporting WFD-specific information management. As the WFD by itself includes concrete IT recommendations only on a very high-level of data exchange, regional and/or national environmental agencies still have to build or adapt their information systems according to their specific requirements. On this background, the present article introduces the software framework WaterFrame® – designed by Fraunhofer IITB – that supports the development of WFD-oriented water information systems. The selected features described are illustrated by practical examples taken from projects already powered by WaterFrame®. The paper presents the two WaterFrame® installations WAABIS Grundwasser, installed in the German federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, and FIS Gewässer (German Free State of Thuringia). The results of using WaterFrame® as a development platform are twofold: On the one hand, development time and costs can be significantly reduced, on the other hand the generated systems are widely integrative, i. e. further development of one of them can be adopted within others with little effort and low costs.