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Presentation of data to the public – German experience
German Environmental Specimen Bank: Open Data on the Web
Maria RütherUmweltbundesamt, Dessau-Roßlau
Overview
Introduction Environmental Specimen Bank (ESB) Information System ESB
ESB web application Structure and functions Technical architecture
Outlook
The German Environmental Specimen Bank ……is an archive of periodically collected representive environmental and human specimens
Established by the BMU managed by UBA Collection of biotic, abiotic and
human specimens Chemical analysis prior to
storage for a fixed set of substances
Long-term storage for retrospective monitoring
All data and information are administered in the ESB Information System
Photos: UKM Münster (5), UPB-Projektgruppe Trier (13)
UPB/Koschorreck
UPB/Koschorreck
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The Information System of the ESB
Client/server application for the internal data administration and data retrieval MS Access client for data administration Oracle database for centralised data management
Public access ESB website Data flow
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ESB website: Who are our target groups …
Interested citizens Press and scientists Politicians and administration
… and how can we serve these groups?
Our user guidance approach: One view on our information and data for all groups A guiding website structure, which supports first time visitors
and returning users, experts and non-experts
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Basics: responsibilities, objectives, concept
Overview: A profile catalogue of all search parameters
Who? What? Where? When?
Online data search Temporal and spatial trends of selected substances Description of the specimens (biometric/anamnestic data)
Results: Evaluated and commented Selected results Publications
What we would like to communicate
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User guidance: From the catalogue to data search
The catalogue contains interlinked profiles of all search parameters Data search results are linked to commented short assessment reports,
introducing the search parameters Then the user can go to the data search dialogue and vary the combination The results contain additional information, e.g. evaluation criteria
Catalogue
Data SearchData Search
Data SearchResult
Data SearchResult
ProfileProfile
CommentedData Search
Example
CommentedData Search
Example
1 Parameter
All Parameters
GlossaryGlossary
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Profile Synonyms, scientific name
Synonyms, scientific name
Preferred namePreferred name
„Passport Photograph“
„Passport Photograph“
Linked examples of
findings
Linked examples of
findings
Links to profilesof the other
search paramters
Links to profilesof the other
search paramters
Description;Link to SOPDescription;Link to SOP
Link to data search
„earthworm“
Link to data search
„earthworm“
Linkedextended
information
Linkedextended
information
Sampling periodSampling period
Links to preselected data
search
Links to preselected data
search
Teaser, also shown in references
Teaser, also shown in references
Specimen specific
parameters
Specimen specific
parameters
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Preferred namePreferred name
„Passport Photograph“
„Passport Photograph“
Linked examples of
findings
Linked examples of
findings
Link to data search
„earthworm“
Link to data search
„earthworm“
Synonyms, scientific name
Synonyms, scientific name
Teaser, also shown in references
Teaser, also shown in references
Description;Link to SOPDescription;Link to SOP
Link to preselected data search
target organs/matrices
Link to preselected data search
target organs/matrices
Path in the taxonomyPath in the taxonomy
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Links to profilesof the other
search paramters
Links to profilesof the other
search paramters
Specimen specific
parameters
Specimen specific
parameters
Sampling periodSampling period
Linkedextended
information
Linkedextended
information
Links to preselected data
search
Links to preselected data
search
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Step 3 - Structure of the data search
To the profile
Selection as bookmark
Systematic
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Processing Search parameters
Tables (default)
Diagrams: Flash or static
Data export: csv, Excel
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Step 4 - Data search results: Overview
Standard display of data Mean value Footnotes with context information
Additional functions Converting
Dry weight to wet weight Wet weight to lipid weight
Optional display Statistical parameters, measure-
ment methods and institutes Classifying by gender (human) Legend
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Reference type wet weight
Reference type lipid weight
Hilfe
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UBA internal
WebDBWebDB
IS-ESB
UPB-DBUPB-DBSetting ofparameter
combinations
Editorial content
Document Content Model
Document Content Model
XHTML RendererXHTML
Renderer
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Web application architecture
Editorial
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Outlook
Projects started in 2010 ESB and Linked Open Data (LOD)
Publishing ESB information and data on the web as LOD Links to other applications, e.g. EUNIS, GEMET
New ESB data management Generalised data model Development as a web application
Future developments by 2014 Providing ESB meta data to INSPIRE (Annex 3)
Themes Human health and safety Soil Environmental monitoring facilities
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Maria Rüther [email protected]
The UBA ESB team
Marike Kolossa-Gehring
André Conrad Andrea Körner Jan Koschorreck Christa Schröter-Kermani
innoQ Deutschland GmbH
wemove digital solutions GmbH
chives Webdesign
Thank you for your attention!
The developing team
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Semantic Model
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Platform
Runtime Environment JRuby (100% Pure-Java Implementation of the Ruby Programming
Language) Underlying Implementation
Ruby on Rails (Open Source Web Framework) Application Server
Apache Tomcat Database Management System (DBMS)
Oracle 10g Chart Rendering
JFreeChart Open Flash Chart
Linked Data Principles
1. Use URIs as names for things2. Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those
names.3. When someone looks up a URI, provide useful
information, using the standards (RDF, SPARQL)4. Include links to other URIs. so that they can discover
more things.
Tim Berners-Lee, 2006-07-27 http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
„ look up those names”- Content Negotiation
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http://data.uba.de/upb/specimenType/10037
http://umweltprobenbank.de/de/documents/profiles/specimen_types/10037
resource URI
http://data.uba.de/rdfxml/upb/specimenType/10037
http://data.uba.de/ttl/upb/specimenType/10037
content-types text/html text/turtle application/rdf+xml
http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/
document URIs
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Public environmental web portals and web applications
Environment Specimen Bank
STARS
POP-Dioxins
MUDAB
GSBL
PRTR
ETOXPortalU
GeoPortal
National Portals
A selection of …
specific chemical data applications
INSPIRE SEIS NORMAN HELCOM OSPAR
DE
EU
INSPIRE Annex 3
Public Environmental Web Applications PortalU – http://www.portalu.de
German Environmental Information Portal with access to several hundred thousands of internet pages and database items of public institutions and organizations; maintained in a cooperation of the federal level and the Länder
Geoportal - http://www.geoportal.bund.deNational geoportal and node for INSPIRE; maintained in a cooperation of the federal level and the Länder
Specific applications dealing with chemical data (selection) GSBL - http://www.gsbl.de
Joint Substance Data Pool of the German Federation and Laender (GSBL) with information on the environmental properties of chemical substances for hazard prevention
POP-Dioxins - http://www.pop-dioxindb.de/POP-Dioxins Database of the German Federation and Laender
ETOX - http://webetox.uba.de/webETOX/index.do?language=enDatabase for Ecotoxicological Effect Data and Quality Targets ETOX
STARS - http://www.stoffdaten-stars.de/Database for soil and environmental relevant substances
MUDABMarine Environmental Data Base (MUDAB), the central German data base for marine data collected within the framework of international and national conventions for the protection of the North Sea and Baltic Seahttp://www.informus.de:8080/mudab/welcome.faces
PRTR - http://www.prtr.bund.dePollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR)
Environmental Specimen Bank - http://www.umweltprobenbank.de/
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