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Nature-GIS A European thematic network for Protected Areas/Nature Preservation and Geographical Information Project IST-2001-34641 Nature-GIS White Paper information. Unfortunately the data are often of poor quality, of inconsistent standards, reside on specialist geographic information systems and are not accessible to the public at local, regional, national and international levels. This means that presenting collations of data as information is time consuming and costly. This scenario is also true of the current framework of GI management in protected areas and nature preservation. NATURE-GIS is therefore committed to comply with a vision that is designed to: • serve the community of people dealing with environmental protection programmes and management of protected areas; • at local, regional, national and EU administrative levels with applications and information services; • that streamline the flow of geographic information; • in their daily tasks. I.4 Project activities The network will be developed in nine work-packages: • four technical workpackages for assessing user needs, data requirements functional requirements and for addressing access to information and GI technology • three workpackages devoted to produce technical guidelines to disseminate the results and to develop a pan European network for protected areas • two workpackages related to project management and the assessment and evaluation of the project results These work-packages are: • WP1: Network management • WP2: User needs assessment • WP3: Data requirements and policy • WP4: Functional requirements • WP5: Access to information and GI technology • WP6: Technical guidelines for data infrastructures for protected areas • WP7: Assessment and evaluation • WP8: Dissemination • WP9: NATURE-GIS towards a pan-European network for protected areas The functional project structure is shown in Figure 2: WP1_Network management WP7_Assessment and evaluation WP2_User needs assessment WP3_Data requirements and policy WP4_Functio nal requirements WP5_Access to information and GI technology WP6_Technical guidelines for data infrastructures for protected areas WP8_Dissemination I.1.1.1. WP9_NATURE-GIS towards a pan-European network for protected areas Fig. 2. The Functional Structure of the NATURE-GIS Project 6
Nature-GIS A European thematic network for Protected Areas/Nature Preservation and Geographical Information Project IST-2001-34641 Nature-GIS White Paper In this scheme the “Technical guidelines for data infrastructures for protected areas” (WP6) provide the means to summarise all of the technical achievements of the work-packages. The first phase of the NATURE-GIS programme will be to assess user needs, define and characterise stakeholders and survey typical uses of GI in connection with nature conservation. Based upon this, it will be possible to establish the data that is required in order to specify the common kernel of GI content needed to describe protected areas. NATURE-GIS will also identify how the information can best be managed and will define a framework for these specialised spatial databases. The results of this assessment will enable access via the Internet to high-quality and comprehensive GI-GIS information on European protected areas. In the second phase the project team will produce technical guidelines for data infrastructures for protected areas in order to contribute to improved geo-data access and exchange through standardisation. Figure 3 shows the approach followed by NATURE-GIS. Fig. 3 The Nature-GIS approach 7
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