Within the EO4HumEn+ project (www.zgis.at/humanitarian-services), a collaborative web mapping platform was created, which not only collects the metadata of individual data sets created and enables searches on them, but also provides the functionalities to jointly create maps and other dynamic geospatial visualizations, and share them in collaborative tasks. The data in the web mapping platform can be accessed by read-only permission from all partners involved, and by full access permission for individuals who are entitled to either upload data or perform creative mapping -the so-called editors. A user manual guides editors through the three main steps of uploading, metadata creation and map production, by documenting the naming conventions and metadata requirements, as well as providing essential advice on data handling and mapping. The portal uses standardized formats, like metadata in ISO (International Organization for Standardization), Dublin or FGDC (Federal Geographic Data Committee), or external resources like Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Service (WMS), which offers standardized sharing capabilities via the services already mentioned. The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) product GeoNode was chosen to implement an entry mask for the EO4HumEn+ data portal.
In the past decades, climate changes became increasingly noticed. As a result of these changes, many extreme events such as flooding and droughts occur. These have an expected increasing impact on society and the environment. Especially the Alps are affected with a stronger increasing temperature compared to the rest of Europe. As a societal reaction, adaptation strategies and tools have been launched. Among the adaptation tools are web-based adaptation platforms, which are assumed to be important governance tools. They support knowledge brokerage, awareness raising, capacity building, and crosslevel coordination. Within this manuscript we identify available platforms and previous Alpine Space Programme projects and their interdisciplinary and cross-subject climate change related information. We analyse available portals and elaborate design and user requirements for the Climate Change Knowledge Inventory Platform developed here. We found that many previously developed platforms integrate similar information, but automated information exchange between platforms is scarce due to interoperability limitations. To avoid these double works of entering the same findings again, our developed catalogue service for the web solution ensures standard compliant information provision to enable interoperability and thus the exchange of climate change information across platforms.
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