Shared Terminology for the Single Environmental Information System (SEIS)

Abstract

The European conference of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU “TOWARDS eENVIRONMENT - Opportunities of SEIS and SISE: Integrating Environmental Knowledge in Europe”1, March 25-27, 2009, Prague, Czech Republic, hosted the eEnvironment Terminology2 workshop about Environmental terminology and its semantics as important instruments for discovery, understanding, and integration of any kind of accessible information. Eleven contributions from five European member states presented domain-specific and interdisciplinary examples and discussed common design issues such as terminology structure models, cross-referencing, symmetric vs. asymmetric multilingualism, identity and reference, publishing terminology in the Web, and linking environmental data to such published terminology. In a final recommendation the participants identified general vocabulary use cases, current trends and future requirements.