Monitoring of Environmental Status through Long Term Series: Data Management System in the EnvEurope Project

Abstract

The last innovations in the information science have improved developing systems relating to the creation, collection, storage, processing, modelling, interpretation, display and dissemination of data and information focused on Environmental Science (Page and Wohlgemuth, 2010). International initiatives such as SEIS (Shared Environmental Information System), GMES (Global Monitoring Environmental and Security), GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems); projects like Humboldt, NatureSDIplus, BioFresh, GIGAS; consortia such as GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility), LifeWatch, DataONE (Data Observation Network for Earth) and OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) and finally legal framework in Europe (INSPIRE - 2007/2/CE) and in United States (OMB Circular A-16 - 2002) stimulated effective implementation of an information technology innovations. A common feature consists of a development of an infrastructure, which facilitates discovery, evaluation and use of data, information and knowledge. Sharing of large datasets can establish a much deeper understanding for both nature and society, open up many new avenues of research or assist to policy-makers with relation to environmental policies. (AA.VV., 2011). Paper deals with issues related to an establishment of architecture for data exchange within the Long Term Ecological domain in Europe and propose solutions to resolve them in order to provide an interoperable system.