Datenbank Grunddaten zur Umweltberichterstattung

The database 'Grunddaten' is designed to register data arising from environmental reporting activities on a Federal level. In addition, it is possible to integrate data obtained through information exchange with the Laender, the OECD, the EU and other national or international organisations. The database aims to form the foundation for national environmental reporting and to provide an instrument for consistency checks on the data presented by the Umweltbundesamt. With the Administrative Agreement between Bund and Laender concerning data exchange regulations coming into force, a central documentation centre is needed to enable the documentation of data which do not fit into specialist information systems. The same thematic classification criteria already employed in the Environmental Information Source Register (UIQUER) and in the Catalogue of Data Sources (UDK) are used. The thematic classification is based on the 'Grunddatenkatalog'. The dabase 'Grunddaten' is an application to describe the heterogeneous environmental data (thematic information as texts, tables or graphs) and to provide direct access to these data. It is therefore possible to perform searches among the information and also to undertake further treatment of the data, for example in the form of desk top publishing. An essential aim is to extend the information basis by continuously adding further thematic data from various sources. (orig.)SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: RN 8908(95-078) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekBundesministerium fuer Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit, Bonn (Germany)DEGerman