COMMISSION ON ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY (VI.2)
Number: 620/23/96
Title: Introduction of Data on Monitoring Networks in World
Wide Web
Coordinator(s): J.
Slanina
Completion Date: 2000 - project terminated
Objective:
The Commission has prepared an inventory and evaluation of monitoring
networks. In order to retain usefulness, this inventory must be
updated. This will be done by means of Internet, through the use
of World Wide Web. The inventory will be incorporated on a "home
page" of the Web, with the home-page address dissiminated both
by print (e.g. announcement in Chemistry International) and
via the Web itself. A user entering the home page is to be provided
with entry to the database, which contains the attributes of the
various monitoring networks: location, number of stations, sampling
freq., species monitored, and the like. This database will also
provide contact names for obtaining the data. Where data can be
obtained electronically, pertinent information will be provided,
but more importantly, by taking advantage of the Web, the user can
be seemlessly and automatically connected to the remote database
wherein that information is contained, permitting to directly download
the desired data to his/her own machine. This feature will greatly
enhance use of the database and, more importantly, of the data themselves.
Maintaining the database electronically allows continuous upgrade
of the database, incorporating new entries and modifications. It
is hoped that this database will motivate various national monitoring
organizations to provide data electronically through their own computer
facilities tied to the Web.
Progress:
Some information on this project is now included on the Commission
Web page, temporary <http://terra.irb.hr>,
including monitoring links from <http://www.dmu.dk>.
Last Update: 2 November 1999
Project terminated 31 dec 2001
