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MEDIS. Mercure Environmental Disaster Information System. Team. MEDIS MERCURE Environmental Disaster Information System. TED - Thesaurus on Emergencies and Disasters A Core Element of the MERCURE Environmental Disaster Information System (MEDIS). Funding Organisations.

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  1. MEDIS Mercure Environmental Disaster Information System Team Environmental Thesaurus/Terminology Meeting, Geneva, April 2004

  2. MEDIS MERCURE Environmental Disaster Information System TED - Thesaurus on Emergencies and Disasters A Core Element of the MERCURE Environmental Disaster Information System (MEDIS) Environmental Thesaurus/Terminology Meeting, Geneva, April 2004

  3. Funding Organisations • Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture, • Federal Environment Agency Austria, UBA • In co-operation with Emergency Management Australia (EMA) Target Groups • UNEP.Net-sites (via MERCURE, Internet) • Other potential users in emergency and civil protection agencies • Candidate countries • Various local and regional authorities etc. Funding Environmental Thesaurus/Terminology Meeting, Geneva, April 2004

  4. Motivation • Lack of terminological knowledge in the field of disaster information • Disasters going beyond borders • English as key language not sufficient in emergency situations • Standardization of terminology and indexing Motivation Environmental Thesaurus/Terminology Meeting, Geneva, April 2004

  5. Goals • Development of a multilingual Thesaurus on Emergencies and Disasters • Integration into a disaster-relevant portal for access to distributed information • Basis: Existing thesauri and terminologies • Themes: Accidents in the Chemical Industry and Transport of Dangerous Goods • Sources: e.g. Australian Emergency Thesaurus Carried out by ISEP: International Society for Environmental Protection Goals Environmental Thesaurus/Terminology Meeting, Geneva, April 2004

  6. Structure TED • Australian Emergency Management Terms ThesaurusEMTT(Emergency Management Australia, EMA) http://www.ema.gov.au/ 252 Topterms 1.624 Deskriptors 168 Nondeskriptors 939 Hierarchical Relations and 2.130 Related Terms 506 Definitions Structure Environmental Thesaurus/Terminology Meeting, Geneva, April 2004

  7. Sources - German • GEMETGeneral Multi-Lingual Environmental Thesaurus(European Environment Agency, EEA) • Eurodicautom (European Terminology Database, EC) • Reference Books Fireprotection, Earthquake, Radiation Protection, Industrial Accidents BM für Inneres, Abteilung Zivilschutz, Wien Sources Environmental Thesaurus/Terminology Meeting, Geneva, April 2004

  8. Used Glossaries(selection) * Glossar von Termini der Risikoanalyse, BGVV, Berlin * Safety Glossary, E-D, IAEA, Wien * Fachwörterverzeichnis, Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik, Wien / Wetterlexikon, Austrocontrol * Roche Lexikon Medizin, on-line Lexikon * Glossar, Nationale Plattform Naturgefahren, PLANAT (BUWAL), CH * Glossar, Forsttechnischer Dienst für Wildbach- u.Lawinenverbauung – BMLFUW, Wien Sources Environmental Thesaurus/Terminology Meeting, Geneva, April 2004

  9. Existing Thesaurus Sources Sources Environmental Thesaurus/Terminology Meeting, Geneva, April 2004

  10. Implementation • Development of TED(in a first step in English & German, then translated into Italian by CNR) • Use of standard software to build and maintain thesauri(THESmain, THESshow) • Customization of MEDIS, a portal containing meta-information and an efficient search engine Implement-ation Environmental Thesaurus/Terminology Meeting, Geneva, April 2004

  11. Thesaurus TED 1/3 Environmental Thesaurus/Terminology Meeting, Geneva, April 2004

  12. Thesaurus TED 2/3 Environmental Thesaurus/Terminology Meeting, Geneva, April 2004

  13. Thesaurus TED 3/3 Environmental Thesaurus/Terminology Meeting, Geneva, April 2004

  14. Future Outlook • Access to existing specialized Information Systems and Databases • Open invitation to countries and organizations for translation and shared use of TED (e.g. European Accession Countries) - without exchange of funds • Contracting with potential users, sponsoring organizations and authorities (European Commission, DG Environment and others) • Provision of a web-based Editorial Board (password protected) Outlook Environmental Thesaurus/Terminology Meeting, Geneva, April 2004

  15. Thank you for your attention Contact: „rudolf.legat@umweltbundesamt.at“ Prototype: „http://gis.umweltbundesamt.at/medis“ Contact Environmental Thesaurus/Terminology Meeting, Geneva, April 2004

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