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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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