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MEDISMercure

Environmental

Disaster

Information

System

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MEDIS MERCURE Environmental Disaster

Information System

TED - Thesaurus on Emergencies and Disasters

A Core Element of the

MERCURE Environmental Disaster Information System

(MEDIS)

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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

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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

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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 andTransport of Dangerous Goods

• Sources: e.g. Australian Emergency Thesaurus

Carried out by ISEP: International Society for Environmental Protection

Goals

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• Australian Emergency Management Terms Thesaurus EMTT(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 TED

1624 Deskriptoren 168 Nondeskriptoren

252 Topterm e

939 H ierarchische Beziehungen

2130 Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen

TEDT hesaurus on E m ergencies and D isas ters

Structure

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Sources - German

• GEMET General 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

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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

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Existing Thesaurus Sources

Sources

Australian Emergency Management Terms Thes E Emergency Management Australia

Thesaurus des Umweltdatenkataloges D. E UBA Berlin, UBA Wien

General Environment Env Thes GEMET 19 European Environment Agency

US EPA Terminology Reference System E US EPA

Glossary of Selected Terms & Abbreviations E US Environment Protection Agency

Terms of Environment (TOE) E National Service Center for Env. Publi

Glossary on terms used in the analysis of DOE US Department of Energy (DOE)

International Agreed Gglossary of Basic Terms

related to Disaster Management E, Es, Fr UN, Dpt of Human Affairs

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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

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Thesaurus TED 1/3

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Thesaurus TED 2/3

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Thesaurus TED 3/3

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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

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Thank you for your attention

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