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Datasets of the Federal Environment Agency for Linked Environment Data

TPAC 2010, Lyon, eGovernment Interest Group Meeting EcoInformatics Web Meeting, 6./7. December 2010. Datasets of the Federal Environment Agency for Linked Environment Data. iQ voc. Maria Rüther, Joachim Fock Federal Environment Agency (UBA), Germany

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Datasets of the Federal Environment Agency for Linked Environment Data

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  1. TPAC 2010, Lyon, eGovernment Interest Group Meeting EcoInformatics Web Meeting, 6./7. December 2010 Datasets of the Federal Environment Agency for Linked Environment Data iQvoc Maria Rüther, Joachim FockFederal Environment Agency (UBA), Germany Thomas Bandholtz, Till Schulte-CoerneinnoQ Deutschland GmbH

  2. Open Environment Data in the 90s The Aarhus Convention 1998 • "Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters" • United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). >> European Environment Agency (EEA) Catalogue of Data Sources (CDS, discontinued) GEneral Multilingual Environment Thesaurus (EEA) >> Environment Agencies in Germany Umwelt-Thesaurus UMTHES Umweltdatenkatalog (UDK) German Environmental Information Network (GEIN) Linked Environment Data

  3. Open Environment Data > 2003 • Directive 2003/4/EC on public access to environmental information • Headed by “Freedom of access to information”. • Requests for information may be refused for several reasons • the confidentiality of the proceedings of public authorities or of commercial or industrial information, • public security or national defense, • the course of justice, • intellectual property rights, • the confidentiality of personal data, • the interests of the person who supplied the information on a voluntary basis, • or the protection of the environment. • National law in Germany since 2005 Linked Environment Data

  4. Current Approaches • From GEIN to PortalU in Germany • Extended information scope and contributants • INSPIRE • Directive 2007/2/EC Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community • Based on OGC Standards (CSW, Feature, Sensor Web, …) • EEA: Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) • Commission Communication 2008 • Many public sectoral portals (water, soil) • Web pages, PDF, CSV, XML over Web Services • Exhausting harmonization processes!!! Linked Environment Data

  5. Suddenly … Linked Environment Data

  6. 2007-10-08 Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/ Linked Environment Data

  7. 2008-09-18 Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/ Linked Environment Data

  8. 2009-07-14 Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/ Linked Environment Data

  9. Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/ Linked Environment Data

  10. Sub-Clouds: Linked Open Drug Data http://esw.w3.org/HCLSIG/LODD Linked Environment Data

  11. European Environment Agency in the Cloud EUNIS biodiversity database http://eunis.eea.europa.eu Linked Environment Data

  12. Wikipedia as a Reference Vocabulary Linked Environment Data

  13. Linked Environment Data (vision@de 2010) EEA UBA EUNIS SNS Location Event Species GEMET Topic EARTh Substance AgroVoc more … I-ESBNordic Countries Italy UK Spain USA Canada Japan South Corea DioxinDB Environment Specimen Bank Linked Environment Data

  14. Short LED History 2009-03: The Prague eTerminology Workshop http://www.e-envi2009.org/SummaryTerminologyW4.pdf 2009-10: 5th Ecoterm meetingat FAO, Rome http://eea.eionet.europa.eu/Public/irc/envirowindows/jad/library?l=/ecoinformatics_indicator/ecoterm_5-6102009 2010: • GEMET and EUNISpublishedas Linked Data by EEA • German Environment Specimen Bank, UMTHES thesaurus + Species taxonomy in testenvironment • EARTh(CNR, Italy) in testenvironment • LED atthe W3C eGovernment Interest Grouphttp://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/Linked_Environment_Data • LEDon Workshops andConferences Linked Environment Data

  15. Who is involved in Germany (1) Linked Environment Data

  16. Who is involved in Germany (2) Linked Environment Data

  17. Who is involved in Germany (3) Linked Environment Data

  18. Involved RDF Vocabularies SKOS(XL) W3C rec – thesauri, classificationshttp://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/ Dublin Core – general metadatahttp://purl.org/dc/terms/ Geonames – for gazetteershttp://www.geonames.org/ontology/ Linked Events Ontology – for the chroniclehttp://linkedevents.org/ontology Darwin Core – for specieshttp://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/ SCOVO – statistical and measuring data http://sw.joanneum.at/scovo/schema.html(currently extended by Data Cube Vocabulary:)http://publishing-statistical-data.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/specs/src/main/html/cube.html + few local extensions SKOS is the only stable standard among them Linked Environment Data

  19. RDF presentation of ESB data (Turtle) esb:t47098a_10220d1bc3e_4ee1a scv:Item ;rdf:value 13.2000;scv:dataset esb:chemicalExposure ;esb:specimenType esbd:10006 ; esb:samplingArea esbd:10137 ; # Blankenese (Unterelbe)esb:substance esbd:10053 ; # alpha-HCH ;esb:timeReference esbd:year2004 ;esb:summaryStat esbd:arithmeticMean ;esb:uom esbd:nggww ;sns:relatedEvent sns:t1d97d0d_102035cd5d4_-3384. # Elbe flood esbd:10006a esbd:SpecimenType ;skos:prefLabel “Brassenmuskulatur”@de ;skos:prefLabel “bream musculature”@en ;skos:broader esb:10037 . esbd:10037a esbd:SpecimenType ;skos:prefLabel “Brassen”@de ;dwct:scientificName “Abramis brama” ; skos:closeMatch <http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/species/9986> . Linked Environment Data

  20. Machine / human readable ESB at runtime RDFRenderer XHTML Renderer IS-ESB internal Document Content Model Editorial Admin UPB-DB WebDB Editorial content Release Linked Environment Data

  21. UBA & innoQ developing … Linked Environment Data • Open source SKOS vocabulary management tool • Web-based support for distributed editorial teams • Comfortable and safe editing with schema-based validation • Editorial workflow implementation • Open Standards • W3C Linked Data • W3C SKOS Recommendation (incl. SKOS-XL) • Technical platform • JRuby, JQuery, MySQL or Oracle + (optionally) Virtuoso or BigOWLIM • Availability • Open Source License (Apache 2.0) • iQvoc Version 1 demo (GEMET) 2008 • iQvoc 2 release scheduled for end of 2010 • Applications: UMTHES, Species, GS-Soil-Thesaurus

  22. What could Ecoinformatics do? • Establish a Web home for LED • Metadata (DCAT, VOID) • RDF Schema recommendations • Open mailing list • Establish Linked Data in reporting obligations • Liaison with W3C eGovernment Interest Group • Discussion of best practises • http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/Linked_Environment_Data • Claim commercial industry contributions • Product life cycle assessment • EMAS / ISO 14001 certification data Linked Environment Data

  23. Thank you for the attention! Maria Rüther, Joachim FockUmweltbundesamtWörlitzer Platz 1, D-06844 Dessau-Roßlaumaria.ruether@uba.dejoachim.fock@uba.deThomas Bandholtz, Till Schulte-CoerneinnoQ Deutschland GmbHHalskestr. 17, D-40880 Ratingen thomas.bandholtz@innoq.comtill.schulte-coerne@innoq.com iQvoc Linked Environment Data

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