Towards A European Forest Information System

The report gives an insight into the potential architecture of a European Forest Information System, its system components and potential applications. A demonstration version was built and tested with various data types. Options are presented on how an operational forest information system could run...

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Main Author Schuck, Andreas
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LanguageEnglish
Published Leiden Brill 2007
Boston BRILL
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SeriesEuropean Forest Institute Research Reports
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Forestry
Information storage and retrieval systems
Information storage and retrieval systems-Forestry-Europe
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Abstract The report gives an insight into the potential architecture of a European Forest Information System, its system components and potential applications. A demonstration version was built and tested with various data types. Options are presented on how an operational forest information system could run within a network of distributed datasets.
AbstractList The report gives an insight into the potential architecture of a European Forest Information System, its system components and potential applications. A demonstration version was built and tested with various data types. Options are presented on how an operational forest information system could run within a network of distributed datasets.
Over the past two decades various European forest information projects have had the vision to build a distributed Europe forest information network, in which existing data can be identified and made available to a community of users. One of these projects was the Network for a European Forest Information Service (NEFIS). It ran from 2003 to 2005. The results of NEFIS are the subject of this report. The project explored an overall information system architecture based on existing data reporting structures at national, EU and international levels. Development of a metadata schema to enable discovery of resources was a second important step. An advanced demonstration version of a European forest information system was developed. It consists of three main components: (1) resource discovery catalogue based on the NEFIS metadata schema; (2) a visualization toolkit allowing for exploratory data analysis; and (3) a remote search demonstrator presenting an example of how distributed data sets can be identified, compiled and analysed. The example of the remote search used forest inventory data from six European countries. The report includes a set of considerations for the development of an operational forest information system. More information on the project outputs can be found at www.efi.int (search for nefis).
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TableOfContents 4.2 The resource discovery component -- 4.2.1 Layer 1 - The metadata dictionary -- 4.2.1.1 The XML expression of the metadata schema (metadata elements) -- 4.2.1.2 NEFIS metadata entry and editing system -- 4.2.2 Layer 2 - The metabase -- 4.2.3 Layer 3 - service layer -- 4.3 The visualization toolkit: what is it and why use it? -- 4.3.1 Exploratory data analysis -- 4.3.1.1. General principles of data exploration -- 4.3.1.2. Tools and techniques -- 4.3.2 Data types -- 4.3.3 Applications of the visualization toolkit - some examples -- 4.3.4 Evaluation of the visualization toolkit -- 4.4 Remote search demonstrator -- 5. A European Forest Information System - The Way Forward -- 5.1 Architecture -- 5.2 The adoption of standards -- 5.3 Vocabulary recommendations -- 5.4 Data rights and data rights management -- 5.5 Geovisualization -- 5.6 Requirements for international reporting -- 5.7 Final comment -- References
Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The need for (forestry) information -- 1.2 Who needs (forest) information? -- 1.3 How and where to access forest information? -- 1.3.1 Introduction -- 1.3.2 The European Forest Information System (EFIS) Demonstrator -- 1.3.3 Network for a European Forest Information Service (NEFIS) -- 1.3.4 The European Forest Information and Communication Platform ( EFICP) -- 1.3.5 GFIS -- 2. The Overall Architecture of a Forest Information System -- 2.1 The Unified Modelling Language (UML) -- 2.2 The user view - overview of European forest information processes and their principal actors -- 2.2.1 Introduction -- 2.3 Commonality between use cases -- 2.3.1 Introduction -- 2.3.2 System design issues -- 2.3.3 Analysis and design premises -- 2.3.4 User needs -- 2.3.5 NEFIS generic use cases -- 2.4 NEFIS architecture -- 2.4.1 Core subsystems -- 2.4.2 Identifying the NEFIS architecture -- 2.4.4 Web services for pan-European forest information -- 2.4.5 NEFIS deployment -- 3. Development of a Metadata Schema -- 3.1 Metadata -- 3.2 Relevant existing standards and initiatives -- 3.2.1 Dublin Core -- 3.2.2 ISO 19115: Geographic information - metadata -- 3.2.3 INSPIRE -- 3.2.4 Open Geospatial Consortium -- 3.2.5 Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata -- 3.3 Controlled vocabularies -- 3.4 NEFIS metadata schema development -- 3.4.1 The DC metadata schema elements -- 3.4.2 NEFIS additions -- 3.4.2.1 Audience -- 3.4.2.2 Reference System -- 3.4.2.3 NEFIS themes, NEFIS terms, Nominated terms -- 3.4.2.4 Quality Report -- 3.4.2.5 Access rights -- 3.5 Evaluation of the proposed NEFIS metadata schema -- 3.6 Interoperability of NEFIS datasets -- 4. The advanced information system demonstrator -- 4.1 Objectives
Title Towards A European Forest Information System
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