With PortalU®, the environmental administration in Germany has created a technical tool in support of the implementation of the European Environmental Information Directive (EEID). PortalU® specifically addresses Article 7.1 of the directive which calls for an “active and systematic” dissemination of environmental ...

Within the European Member States rich environmental data assets exist. Although a lot of these data have already been prepared digitally, the accessibility of the data is still extremely limited. So, a huge amount of environmental data is difficult to discover and exchange. Hence, within the Member States for both, ...

Actual efforts to fit the ISO 19115 / ISO 19119 compliant data model of the German Catalog of Data Sources to the INSPIRE requirements formulated by the Draft Implementing Rules for Metadata (Version 4) are presented. Moreover, some considerations on how to set up an efficient German INSPIRE metadata infrastructure are ...

Das Umweltportal Deutschland PortalU® (www.portalu.de) ist bisher ein Portal für Umweltinformationen von Bund und Ländern. Mittelfristig soll es um kommunale Umweltinformationen erweitert werden. Eine direkte Einbindung der Informationsangebote der Kommunen sprengt den Rahmen der derzeitigen organisatorischen Struktur ...