Kazakos, WassiliKramer, RalfSchmidt, AndreasCremers, Armin B.Greve, Klaus2019-09-162019-09-162000http://enviroinfo.eu/sites/default/files/pdfs/vol102/0646.pdfhttps://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/26641CoastBase is a project within the IST programme of the European Commission, which started at the beginning of this year. CoastBase aims to improve European marine and coastal management with regard both to the search for and access to a broad range of information sources. In this paper we present the project's main objective, which is the development of a user friendly, virtual, multilingual, multi-platform, Internet-accessible architecture for searching and querying distributed coastal and marine information sources.Text/Conference Paper