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Transcript of E-EIONET 2001 Hannu Saarenmaa European Environment Agency.
Why?
•End users ask: What is the purpose of this network? What will it do for me? Why don’t we just use email and the web?
•Developers ask: How should applications be designed for EIONET? Can’t we just use our own tools?
•EEA asks: Can e-EIONET provide new products and services?
General business requirements for EIONET
•Provide an integrative generic infrastructure–Platform for coordination of initiatives, enable interoperability, creation of new opportunities
•Support the collaboration process of integrated analysis within DPSIR framework–Project coordination, management of information overload, making life easier, achieving savings, other practical benefits...
•Streamline environmental data- and workflows within the wider MDIAR chain–Remove duplication and reporting burden
e-EIONET is about infrastructure
•The prerequisite of interoperability
•Building on each others work
•There are many aspects to infrastructure
–Physical, network, application, information, harmonisation, support, security, ...
Application infrastructure
Use network infrastructure (Internet)
Adopt generic services from open source (Zope, Apache...)
Select common tools (CIRCA library,
Yihaw, ...)
Build apps
(public,corporate,
group,personal)
Proto-cols
Sup-port
Information interchange infrastructure
Network protocols (TCP/IP)
Server protocols (HTTP, LDAP, SQL, CORBA, ...)
Interoperability protocols (SOAP,
RSS, ...)
Application protocols
(Domain XML Schema)
Harmo-nisat-ion
Appli-cat-ions
Data harmonisation infrastructure
Metadata (ISO11179, UML, XML, ...)
Metainformation (DC, GELOS, ...)
Resource discovery
(UDDI, ...)
Sup-port Proto-
cols
Generic Search (Altavista, ...)
Details of the layered architecture
33 Unix server computers across Europe
Internet and its communication protocols TCP/IP, http, ldap, nntp, smtp, ...
Generic services from open sources www, directory, email, news, search, SQL, ...
Personal workplace
Group collab app
Corporateportal app
Library tool
DataMgmt tools
Portal tools
Other tools ...
Portal Tool Kit 2.0
•Some of the following features can be expected by end of 2001
–Calendar and meetings–Expertise exchange–Enterprise knowledge portal –CIRCA integration–Registry of collaborating portals–Personalisation between and within channels
–Search
CIRCA 2.5e
•Roles
•Organisation objects
•Dynamic mailing lists based on roles
•Library enhancements
•”What is new”
•Rich Site Summaries
•Multi-node administration support
CIRCA 3.0
•Database foundation
•Domain access for multiple directories
•Open source engines
•Electronic newspaper (Slashcode)
•Linux platform
–October 2001
•Modules with Java 2 Enterprise Edition
–in 4.0?
New data management tools
•Reporting Obligations Database
•Inland Waters Data Warehouse
•Coastbase (IST project)
•EUNIS Data Warehouse
•Metadata (XML Schema store)
•Content registry (UDDI)
•DEMs with XML interchange
Reporting burden
• Each year, each member state has to provide 37,000 figures to various international environmental reporting systems, essentially answering that many questions.
• Only 17% of these figures are related to evaluating the effectiveness of any particular EU policy.
• There are 57 sectoral committees in the environment sector alone.
• Most of them have developed their own data collection and applications.
Currently: Ad-hoc overlapping dataflows
on email, floppy, fax, letter
EuroStat EC EEA OECD UNEP
NFP and other National Authorities
The Public and Decision-Makers
ETC
DG
DG
NRC
EuroStat EC EEA OECD UNEP
NFP and other National Authorities
The Public and Decision-Makers
ETC
DG
DG
NRC
2001: Report to Data Warehouse on NFP EIONET server
EuroStat EC EEA OECD UNEP
NFP and other National Authorities
The Public and Decision-Makers
ETCDG
NRC
DG
EIONETServer
• bring every citizen, school, business and administration on-line - quickly
• create a digitally literate and entrepreneurial Europe
• ensure an inclusive information society
Objectives
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• address key areas of action at European level can make a difference
• collaborative efforts by Member States, Commission and private sector
• 10 key areas selected for action
How?
12
Action
1. European youth into the digital age
2. Cheaper Internet access
3. Accelerating e-commerce
4. Fast Internet for researchers and students
5. Smart cards for secure electronic access
13
Action
6. Risk capital for high-tech SMEs
7. eParticipation for the disabled
8. Healthcare online
9. Intelligent transport
10. Government online
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Government Online priorities
•Ensure easy access to at least four essential types of public data in Europe.
–Define the pilot areas
•Ensure consultation and feedback via the Internet on major political initiatives.
•Ensure that citizens have electronic access to basic interactions.
General success factors in network building
• It is easy to start a network, but difficult to keep alive
• Build the organisation and technology hand in hand: Managers must understand technology and technologists must listen to users
• Understand users' contraints• Respect rights of data custodians• Provide opportunity -- the IS lives by
opportunity• Then, persistence
Building institutions
• Network organisations can not be managed – but they can be led
• Network organisations are normally based on voluntary cooperation – motivated by opportunity
• By nature, network organisations are slow – a top down drive difficult to create
• The traditional approach for defining user needs first and then finding technological solutions does not normally work
• Demonstration, interaction, and iteration works• Spread of best practice: make the best the norm• Providing a political forum works
Building network infrastructure
• Model the organisational network in technological infrastructure – ownership
• Build services that provide opportunity• Learn how to build on each others' work• Build infrastucture – open interfaces• Build gateways – navigate by metainformation• Allow contributions – build dialogue and
platform for opportunity• Personalise and integrate• Don't build applications – build infrastructure
Building content value chains for e-communities
• Information society consists of communities (i.e., networks of people and organisations)
• Content can not be the same for all• We have tried mass personalisation: How to define
Special Interest Groups without excessive fragmentation? What is the critical mass?
• Personalisation via community portals• Involve content publishing expertise in all teams • Avoid information overload• Key in value chain: From information exchange to
information provision• When is information sustainable?