UBA launches National Centre for Environmental and Nature Conservation Information | Umweltbundesamt

In terms of content, the centre is entrusted with the development and operation of the data and information portal umwelt.info, which is intended to become the first point of contact for questions on environmental protection and nature conservation as a search engine. The nationwide knowledge resource is intended to make environmentally relevant ⁠data and information from all sectors and federal levels easier to find and to relate to each other.

"The umwelt.info team is very interdisciplinary so that we can provide the portal with the appropriate data on current environmental and nature conservation issues in a professionally sound manner," says Anja Reineke, head of the centre. "Beyond that, however, we also want to offer an interesting and varied range of services for the general public with our future web editorial team."

An important first milestone was already reached before the official opening of the new location – the completion of a prototype metadata index in July this year. The metadata index is a central component of the emerging portal. It systematically catalogues the data and information resources contained there, so that this content will be publicly accessible and searchable free of charge for all users in the future.

The portal is being developed as an open source project and can be viewed publicly at  https://gitlab.opencode.de/umwelt-info . All interested parties are cordially invited to contribute to the project in this way.

An insight into the project is already available at www.umwelt.info . In future, the internet portal will be available at this address.