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EEA
EIONET the Telematic Network
European Environment Information and Observation Network
***
European Environment Agency
European Commission DGIII - IDA Programme
European Commission DGIA - Phare Programme
Finsiel SpA., European Dynamics S.A.
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EEA
EIONET Origin and Facets
• EIONET was set up at the same time and on basis of same legislation as the EEA in 1990. – EEA became operational in 1994.
• EIONET is both an organisational network and a telematic network.
• Here we only speak of the latter. – It became operational in 1997.
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EEAGeneral Business Requirements for EIONET
• Support integrated analysis of state of environment and reporting on it
• Streamline dataflows, remove duplication
• Public access to documents and databases
• Vehicle for coordinating international and national initiatives
• Integrative platform for applications and linking to other economic sectors
• Project coordination, manage info overload
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EEAFrom Data to Decisions:The Famous Pyramid
of Information
Decision
Analysis (Indicators)
Integration (Ontology)
Data-bases
Data &Observations
Judgment
DATAINFOTEXT1 6 84 1 9 7 3 1
VALUESVALUES
TOOLSTOOLS
Documentmanagement
DataWarehouse
DSS
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EEA
Multiple EIONET Projects
• EIONET began as Intranet (IDA-1 1995-97)– Virtual Private Network on public Internet
• EIONET became an Extranet (1998-)– Accommodate new partners flexibly, integrate– Connect with suppliers and customers
• EIONET on public Internet (IDA-2)– Public access to best available information– Improve information by exposing it
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EEA
Phasing of EIONET
• 15 Member State NFPs 1996-1998
• 9 European Topic Centres 1997-1998
• 3 EFTA country NFPs 1998-1999
• 13 Phare countries 1997-1999
• Capacity building for national EIONETs 1998-
• Applications through DGXIII 1999-
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EEAEIONET Zones
EEA
NFP
Phare
ETC
NRC
ETC Part-ners
Con-tractors
EU Insti- tutions
International institutions
R&D projects
Special Interest Networks
PublicCore Extranetof 40 nodes
Full EIONETof 600 nodes
Scientists
Media
Semi-public
Internet
Public www-services
and newsbroad-casting
Phare Topic Links
NGO
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EEAEIONET the Mother of Intranets
EEA
ETCPhareNFPNFP
NRC
ETC Partner
Contractors Euro-Intranet
NRC
NRC
Extranet: Password access
Intranet: Replication of data and physical network security
Phare Topic Link
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EEALinking National and European Interest Groups
CIRCLEEEA
NRC
Replication of selected data
EIONET Extranet
National Environmental Extranet
Document sharing
Document sharing
NFPCIRCLE
Data warehousing
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EEANRC
Public server
Extranet CIRCLE server
RouterInternet Fire-wall
Local
LAN
NFP DirectoryEmailNewsgroupsDocument managementOn-line database
Electronic publicationsState of environment reports
Public discussion foraLinks to other nodes
Search engines
General public
Set-up at each EIONET node
ETC
EEA
Phare
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EEATechnologies Selected
• Internet backbone– From public Internet to TEN-34?
• UNIX Computers of Digital, HP, IBM, Sun
• Routers of Cisco
• Firewall of IBM
• Netscape Communicator/Composer
• Netscape SuiteSpot servers
• IRC/CIRCLE from European Dynamics
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EEA
Wires Boxes
DNS
TCP/IP
CORBAHTTP IIOPZ39.50SMTP
Databases
Directories
Certificates
ConferencingMessaging
Calendar
Project Management
Web
Document Sharing
Cataloguing and SearchingReplication
API
Data Modelling
Agents
Public NewsWebCasting
VerticalApplications
EIONET LAYERED SERVICES PUZZLE
LDAP
Data Warehousing
CIRCLE
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EEACIRCLE Interest Groups
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EEACIRCLE Services
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EEA
Messaging“If the only tool you know is a hammer, the world soon looks like nail.”
• Email contributes to information overload– Encourages unstructured communication– Organisation of material left to recipient
• EIONET was not built for email,although email has an important role in time-critical announcements and distributing URLs– Mailing lists @eionet.eu.int
• nfp, etc, ittag, ittag-etc, ittag-nfp, sysadmin
– Functional mailboxes at nodes
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EEA
User PublishingDon’t print, don’t email, but...
• …upload - share - search!
• EIONET has become a major document management project– One-button publishing with CIRCLE
• Users control content– Especially for drafts, bypass the webmaster– Faster turnaround, quality assurance easier– Project homepages (interest groups in CIRCLE)
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EEA
ConferencingAfrican village metaphor: “The world is one big meeting.”
• New ways of working together needed– Meetings are very resource-consuming– Communication needs escalate– Virtual conferences and videoconference help
• Connecting discussions with documents– Announce postings in newsgroups– Conduct threaded discussions on documents
• Done with CIRCLE NNTP interface
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EEA
Directory ServicesThe ultimate solution for the address database problem
• Distribute to NFPs and beyond– Address database, CDS, and DS integration– How to manage external contacts problem
• LDAP an essential part of CIRCLE– Usernames/passwords in a common pool– Created and maintained at each node– Replicated between sites
• Certificates via TrustFactory (1999)
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EEA
ReplicationBandwith is a problem - the missing European backbone
• Mechanism to transport selected files from one server to another automatically
• Built-in in directory services and CIRCLE
EEA
NFP
NFP
NFP
NFP
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EEA
Search
• When we have 40 nodes and several projects on each of them, how do we find information?– On each IG there is a search facility– Across IGs there is currently nothing, – To search multiple nodes there is only CDS– Push technology pilot by Tieto
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EEA
After the training the users...."
• Four levels of helpdesk– 1st level is IG leader/secretary: allow users, control
access, structure library and discussions– 2nd level at EEA [email protected]– 3rd level at European Dynamics– 4th level by vendors
• Training programme
• EIONET Newsletter appears 3 times year.
Helpdesk and training
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EEA
Online Databases• Improving by exposing
– Generate lots of hits– Legacy databases from CORINE are receiving
web front-ends, new ones built direct to web
• Data Warehousing– Consists of data extraction, cleaning, mining
for patterns, web access
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EEAEIONET Distributed Data Architecture
ETC
NFP
EEA
OperationalDatabases in Member Countries
DistributedData Warehouses
ReportWarehouse
“Data - Information- Knowlegde”
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EEA
Currently: Ad-hoc overlapping dataflows on email, floppy, fax, letter
EuroStat EC EEA OECD UNEP
NFP and other National Authorities
The Public and Decision-Makers
ETC
DG
DG
NRC
EuroStat EC EEA OECD UNEP
NFP and other National Authorities
The Public and Decision-Makers
ETC
DG
DG
NRC
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EEA1999: Report to Data Warehouse
on NFP EIONET Server
EuroStat EC EEA OECD UNEP
NFP and other National Authorities
The Public and Decision-Makers
ETCDG
NRC
DG
EIONETServer
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EEA2001: Automated Dataflows between Data Warehouses on Multiple EIONET Servers
EuroStat EC EEA OECD UNEP
NFP and other National Authorities
The Public and Decision-Makers
ETCDG
NRC
DG
EIONETServer
EIONETServer
EIONETServer
EIONETServer
DatabaseServer
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EEA
EIONET Interface to Other Networks
• Integrate to the networks of other sectors
• Provide a platform for participation
• Avoid duplication of work
• Host activities that complement EIONET
• EEA coordinates, locates, links, supports,…
• Users identified but not restricted
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EEAOther Networks to Integrate with
• Telematics Applications Programme of DGXIII– 26 applications in FP4: including IRENIE– FP5 to start in December 1998– EIONET can provide an intergrative platform
• Networks of energy, agriculture, forests, ...
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EEA
More Other Networks
• Special Interest Networks may carry “Best Available Information”: Quality control?– BALLERINA
• International conventions– Clearing-House Mechanism of the
Convention on Biological Diversity in Europe
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EEA
Information Locators“Best Available Information”
• EIONET Directory Service
• Catalogue of Data Sources
• G7/GELOS
• EDEN
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EEA
Situation with www.eea.eu.int
• Present EEA homepage is a document store– 300,000 hits per month (January 1998)
• What is the balance between electronic and paper publishing? 200%– Languages and translations– All deliverables direct to web
• Online database access sorely needed!• Beyond documents into news broadcasting
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EEA
Reference Centre
• One-stop-shop for electronic information
• Link to information held by others
• So far, web has been an afterthought just used for wider dissmination of paper-based products
• Towards continuous updating
• Topical arrangement
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EEA
SUMMARY
• There are multiple EIONETs– Gradually opening up, merging with Internet
• Core services now around Internet-based document management -- success
• Existing ad hoc dataflows are being tackled
• Information for the citizens next