A Framework for the Evaluation of Marine Spatial Data Infrastructures – Accompanied by International Case-Studies

Abstract

Germany is currently developing a marine data infrastructure addressing different topics such as coastal engineering, hydrography and surveying, protection of the marine environment, maritime conservation, regional planning, and coastal research. This undertaking is embedded in a series of regulations and developments at many administrative levels, from which specifications and courses of action are derived. To set up a conceptual framework for the marine data infrastructure of Germany (MDI-DE), scientists at the Chair for Geodesy and Geoinformatics at the Rostock University are building a reference model, evaluating meta-information systems and developing models to support common workflows in marine applications.

Keywords

• spatial information science
• interoperability
• web-based
• marine
• data infrastructure
• evaluation