Domain terminology is a network of hopefully shared conceptualisations in the area of discourse, designated by hopefully un-ambiguous terms and labels or - in terms of data representation - identifiers. In most cases those terms and identifiers are not managed on the enterprise level which causes misunderstandings and ...

Soil monitoring programmes in Germany are widely spread by location, scope of observation, funding and temporal extent. Citizens as well as professionals have difficulties picking up the “right” data for their needs, many times not even knowing that such data exists. The Federal Environment Agency in Germany, “Umweltbundesamt ...

After three years of discussion and early prototypes, the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), Germany, now has launched a two-year research & development project on Linked Environment Data (LED) with innoQ Deutschland GmbH as a contractor. This project will set up a core cloud of environment data with a well-elaborated ...

The Federal Environment Agency (UBA) in Germany is one Competent Authority of the European Member States nearby other involved with the assessment and authorisation of chemicals. For more then 15 years the Agency has been experiences for design and implementation of complex data bases as well as the management of ...

This article gives an overview of a recent project of the German Environmental Specimen Bank (ESB) regarding the management of its data. It describes the user requirements, both from the perspective of the scientists as well as of application management, which have led to the development of a general tool for managing ...