Supporting Content Provision in EnvironmentalInformation Infrastructures

[摘要] Information Infrastructures for managing and providing environmental resources are requested by numerous initiatives on regional,national, and international scales. While much research focuses on thediscovery and consumption of provided content, environmental data and modelprovision is hardly addressed. Each time an expert creates new information ordevelops a novel scientific algorithm it is delegated to an expert in informationand communication technology to make this content available in a givenEnvironmental Information Infrastructure (EII). From our point of view, thisworkflow is a bottleneck in sharing environmental content that impedes theefficient maintenance of EII. Accordingly, we have extended the classical three- layered EII architecture with a middleware for assisted content publication anddeployment. A first implementation for data publishing is in place, whileinvestigations on the publication of environmental models are ongoing. In thisposition paper, we briefly present the status of our work and discusspossibilities for publishing environmental models. We point to related activitiesand outline our future plans. We hope that our contribution will help to increasecontent availability in EIIs in standard basis and thereby will aid contentdiscovery and model composition.

[效力级别] 计算机科学