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1. Home Calendar About Us Logout a lt 2000 Annual Calendar 2002 gt INDEX NEWS ome 3 IUFRO WEB SITE 23 01 IUFRO GFIS 23 01 n GFIs Brochure 2301 Events taking place in 2001 IUFRO intranet 23 01 Restricted area 23 01 Feminin 22 01 Monday 12th Mar 2001 Local Advanced Search 12 Mar 2001 to 06 Apr 2001 GEIS Africa Training Course ee review Monday 12th Mar 2001 hats New TDG 12 Mar 2001 to 06 Apr 2001 GFIS Africa Training Course annual Calenda Monday 12th Mar 2001 CURRENT GFIS ODE SOLUTION download GFIS ToDo Node Software 12 Mar 2001 to 06 Apr 2001 GFIS Africa training x web masters lt 2000 January 2001 2002 gt OTHER GFIS NODE SOLUTIONS to realize pity ee eair Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Multi Host Search 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2 http ufro ifs tuwien ac at ofisfacalendarhome php Internet Figure 14 The annual calendar at the GFIS web page in Vienna 22 E GFIS IUFRO Main Website Microsoft Internet Explorer Address a http fiufro ifs tuwien ac at gfis ncalendarhome php alll Se Back gt amp a gt i Fie Edit View Favorites Tools Help Links i GFIS Global Forest Information Service Home Calendar About Us Logout
2. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday INDEX NEWS 3 01 IUFRO WEB SITE 23 01 1 2 3 4 5 6 IUFRO GFIS 23 01 h 01 TUERO intranet 23 01 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Restided area a Pre inar o pe ae 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Local Advanced Search GFIS NODES oo aiis 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 dd Objects arats Tebe 29 30 Annual Sendar CURRENT GFIS NODE acu nae a a Node Software OTHER GFIS NODE Events taking place in April 2001 SOLUTIONS to realize interoperability search i Host Search Monday 12th Mar 2001 12 Mar 2001 fo 06 Apr 2001 GFIS Africa Training Course Monday 12th Mar 2001 12 Mar 2001 to 06 Apr 2001 GFIS Africa Training Course Monday 12th Mar 2001 12 Mar 2001 fo 06 Apr 2001 GFIS Africa training x web masters Saturday 08th Jan 2000 08 Jan 2000 to 21 Dec 2002 CRIS 2000 Knowledge at work research information for society http jJiuFro ifs tuwien ac at afisincalendarhome php a Internet Figure 15 The monthly calendar form at the Vienna GFIS page 3 1 3 4 See what s new This function provides a very quick overview on the latest information that has been submitted to the system Figure 16 shows the user interface used to enter the requested time period and to display the corresponding records found in the database Again the information includes a link to more details about the retrieved item as shown in Figure 10 23 2 FISE Forest Information What s New Microsoft Internet Explorer 0 x Address
3. GLOBAL FOREST INFORMATION SERVICE GFIS GFIS Node User and Installation Manual Version 1 0 Draft by Markus Weidenbach amp Margherita Sini Taino and Rome May 2001 Table of Content 1 Who should read this manual 2 What is the Global Forest Information Service GFIS 2 1 History and future Ze del Background 212 The development of the GFIS prototypes 2 1 3 EFIS a European Node of the GFIS 2 1 4 GFIS Africa 2 1 5 Future perspectives of the GFIS 2 2 The GFIS community 22 1 People and Organisations 22 2 Information about GFIS on the WWW 2 23 List of existing GFIS Nodes and GFIS webmasters 3 Howto use the GFIS system 3 l Main features of the GFIS Information Server GFIS IS 3 1 1 The Login and Register procedure 3 1 2 Adding and searching forestry related information 3 1 2 1 Adding information to the system 3 1 2 2 Searching for information 3 1 2 3 Display of found information 3 1 3 GFIS IS Auxiliary Tools 3 1 3 1 Downloadable Files 3 1 3 2 User Registration and Profile Control 3 1 3 3 The GFIS Calendar 3 1 3 4 See what s new 3 1 3 5 Implemented hyperlinks to external information 3 2 Querying the metadata catalogues of the GFIS Nodes 3 2 1 Metadata and databases used for the GFIS Nodes 3 2 2 Querying the GFIS Node catalogues 3 2 3 Displaying the results found in the catalogues 4 Management of GFIS Nodes 4 1 Installation configuration and maintenance of a GFIS Node 4 1 1 The GFIS Node Administrator
4. 4 1 2 Hard and software requirements 4 1 2 1 Hardware Specifications 4 1 2 2 Software Specifications 4 1 3 Three steps to install a GFIS Node 4 1 3 1 Step 1 Download the GFIS Node Files 4 1 3 2 Step 2 Define the GFIS Node directory 4 1 3 3 Step 3 Configure the locator database 4 1 4 Configuration of the locator database 4 1 4 1 The Table DBName 0 o0 00 amp UNAAMUA U pd 10 11 12 14 16 18 19 19 20 22 23 24 25 25 25 28 30 30 30 30 30 30 31 31 32 32 33 33 4 1 4 2 The Table DBType 4 1 4 3 Changing the necessary parameters of the table DBName 4 1 5 Addressing databases with JAFER 4 2 Setting up a GFIS compatible metadatabase 4 3 Using standardised forestry terms 4 3 1 Proposal of a GFIS Thesauri from Roger Mills 4 4 Backups of the GFIS Node 4 5 Communication and collaboration within the GFIS 5 The FORNESSA Approach 6 Glossary and Literature 6 1 Glossary of GFIS related terms 6 2 Literature 34 35 36 36 37 37 40 40 41 42 42 45 1 Who should read this manual On the one hand this manual is meant for all persons who are generally interested in the web based functionality of the Global Forest Information Service GFIS and on the other hand it s a guideline for all IT experts and web administrators who are in charge with the installation of a new GFIS Node If you plan to establish a new GFIS Node you should be able to configure the internet servi
5. RC build asp DB R 1 amp id Archive aan e Yes 8 1 IUFRO Congress T dbs I UFR a eT 10 database gvm sai jrc it fise O Meetin irc it ise uild asp ae d 2 gMDB No 9 1 FAO metadatabase dbs FAO_ msacc md b Table 4 Example of a locator database 4 1 4 2 The Table DBType Structure Column Name Description DBType Unique Identifier for the type of the database DBTypeDescr iption Type of database Accessible Type of access via web page to the database Table 5 Structure of table DBType 34 Example 1 Access ODBC 2 SQL Server ODBC 3 Oracle ODBC 4 MySQL ODBC 5 CDS ISIS 6 ADLib 7 Borland Interbase SQL 8 Postgress SQL 9 Other Table 6 Example of table DBType 4 1 4 3 Changing the necessary parameters of the table DBName Every row in the table represents a Dublin Core compatible metadatabase that you can to link to the GFIS system To do so you have to enable the access and query of the metadatabases by checking following fields in the locator database 1 Set the corresponding field in the column Available to true yes to display the database on the query interface and to make it available for the search 2 The IDDB is a unique identifier automatically given by the database don t change this field 3 The DBType defines the database you are using The numbers refer to the table DBType see Table 6 where 1 is defined as SQL Server 2 as Access etc Select the number according
6. Figure 19 Before showing the detailed results a dynamically generated page informs the user about the records found in every single pre selected database By clicking on Show Result the user can select the database to be displayed 28 Finally the detailed results will be presented in a table showing all those fields that have been selected before by activating the Show button in the query form illustrated in Figure 20 Microsoft Internet Explorer http 130 88 203 140 GFIS example33 asp theDB 5 amp aoTitle LIKE8txtTitle e amp critCreator AND amp aoCri Figure 20 Results presented for one database the columns to be displayed have been chosen in a previous step see Figure 18 29 4 Management of GFIS Nodes This chapter describes the measures and tasks needed to install run and maintain a GFIS Node Hence the following paragraphs mainly address those persons who are responsible for the set up and maintenance of the GFIS Nodes 4 1 Installation configuration and maintenance of a GFIS Node 4 1 1 The GFIS Node Administrator Operating a GFIS Node needs an IT expert who is able to maintain an internet server and who has basic skills in managing databases The GFIS Node administrator will be the contact person for the IUFRO GFIS program co ordinator in Vienna that s why he has to understand the principles of the GFIS concept Moreover his tasks comprise a the installation and updating of the G
7. GFIS node to be cognisant of all others and can simultaneously query the metadata catalogues of all GFIS nodes in a single search operation Metadata These are data about data and are used to catalogue the data information holdings of each GFIS node A metadata catalogue contains an entry for each information resource of the affiliated node Participants should be able to use their existing metadata catalogues with little modification GFIS participants who do not yet have catalogues will be able to follow the metadata standards recommended by the GFIS as they create new catalogues Data Information These are the items that the user requires The locator and metadata catalogues help the user to find the data information required In Figure 22 polygons depicting data information sets have varying shapes sizes and shading representing different content spatial and temporal scales format and other attributes specific to each database Data information sets A D all have standardised metadata to describe their contents A and B also have some harmonised data based on common standards but C does not D does not have free access but the metadata may help the user determine if the data are worth purchasing Data set E belongs to an affiliated node and is only a link without any added value by GFIS Z39 50 protocol The International Standard Maintenance Agency Standard which specifies a client server based protocol for searching and ret
8. all around the world Use the text field to enter your keywords to query all rows and columns of the catalogues belonging to Nodes that are marked in the list above 26 E Microsoft Internet Explorer Address 42 http www trees gvm sai jre it fise Examples example31 asp DB 1 amp DB 1 1 18DB 3338submit Submit I Back File Edit Links gt Build your own filter criteria Title JUKE z Forest M Show Creator M Show Subject M Show Publisher DC Show lt Contributor I Show Date M Show Description M Show Type M Show C ras m 4 Format I Show Identifier I Show Language M Show C ras A m m 4 4 C vas m 4 CountryName M Show Rights Cc A m 4 C Show I Show all fields g GC SS figintermet Figure 18 The page of the GFIS Node in Ispra presents a detailed query form to search for different Dublin Core fields Title Creator Subject etc separately The user can combine the fields with the logical operands AND and OR Additionally he can define the content of the Dublin Core fields by selecting between LIKE is like is equal gt is bigger than lt is smaller than gt is equal or bigger than lt is equal or smaller than and lt gt is not equal This query form also provides a button for every field to tell the system if the field will be shown or hidden when the search re
9. de Pesquisas Agropecuaria Brazil Smith Brad United States Forest Service Szaro Robert IUFRO Special Programme for Developing Countries Web links to the members organisations can be found at http iufro boku ac at iufro taskforce tfafis litfgfis Atm 2 2 2 Information about GFIS on the WWW The latest news on the activities of the IUFRO GFIS Task Force are published on the IUFRO web server at http iufro boku ac at iufro taskforce hptfgfis htm In order to better co ordinate the activities of the GFIS Node administrators and system developers a mailing list and an internet page with restricted access http iufro gfis intranets com have been installed To subscribe the mailing list send an e mail to majordomo metla fi leave the subject field open and write subscribe gfis forum in the message field 2 2 3 List of existing GFI S Nodes and GFI S webmasters As of May 2001 there are nodes in the below listed countries which are managed by specifically trained webmasters Their names and the URL address may change during the time if this is the case please contact the corresponding institution to know the actual URL and the responsible webmaster s name Country I nstitution s URL of GFIS Node Web Address master as of May 2001 Austria UFRO http iufro ifs tuwien ac at gfis index php GFIS IS a http iufro ifs tuwien ac at gfis snodehome php Node le
10. entries GFIS Africa Training Course Event GFIS Brochure The GFIS Administrator training course objective is to train local people at the African Nodes to be GFIS web masters and database IUFRO intranet managers R GFIS Africa Training Course Event Preliminary Request Sa ERA AE E 7 The GFIS Administrator training course objective is to train local people at the African Nodes to be GFIS web masters and database Local Advanced Search managers Add Obiect Diseases and Insects in Forest Nurseries 4th Meeting of IUFRO Working Party 7 03 04 Event T Technical programme committee Dr Robert L James USDA Forest Service USA Dr Robert Perrin INRA France Dr Arja Lilja N Vantaa Reseach Centre Finland Dr Heikki Smolander Suonenjoki Research Station Finland Dr Maria I Salerno Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales Argentina Dr Jack Sutherland Applied Forest Science Canada Scientific board Dr Jack Sutherland Annual Calendar Dr Robert Perrin Prof Timo Kurkela Dr Jarmo Holopainen Conference purpose To review progress in the scientific understanding of the Edit Profile problematic to produce healthy forest seedlings since the last meeting of Working Party in Gainesville in 1996 To explore the role of CURRENT GFIS NODE nursery technology in integrated pest control To understand of disease developments in tree nurseries SOLUTION GFIS Africa training x web masters Event download GFIS Node The GFIS Administrator
11. http www trees gym sai jrc it Fise prototype_1 whatsnew asp Back z File all Links gt Ea What s New on this web site Search on data entered fi 000 days ago METLA Organisation The Finnish Forest Research Institute METLA is an independent research organization under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry It produces research based information for decision makers forest industries and practical forestry as well as for the public at large JRC Organisation e Joint Research Centre INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL FOREST ACADEMY Organisation The Academy is located in the beautiful New Forest campus which is about 5 kilometers west of the city centre of Dehradun The campus houses the world renowned Forest Research Institute The 1100 acres campus is bounded by the river Tons in the north and Chakrata road on the south Large parts of fhe campus are still covered with natural forest and dense experimental plantations The campus is situated at an altitude of 670m above mean sea level and receives over 200 cm of rainfall annually It can be best approach from the Dehradun city through Chakrata road The Hostels Guest house Auditorium and playgrounds of fhe Academy are also located in the campus whereas the newly built housing colony for the faculty and staffis located on Chakrata road opposite the New Forest campus e Finland will host an open ended inter governmental seminar of experts on criteria and indic
12. it is shown how the GFIS system is using the Dublin Core elements to store metadata Following paragraphs describe how you can use the GFIS system to query distributed Dublin Core compatible metadatabases 3 2 2 Querying the GFIS Node catalogues All GFIS Nodes including the GFIS Node that is physically attached to the GFIS IS web page in Vienna provide a list of several catalogues that can be addressed to search for forestry related metadata In order to start the query of the catalogues the user can either go to the GFIS IS web page in Vienna where he can select all those Nodes and catalogues world wide he wants to query or b he can go directly to the Node s own web page by using its URL address 25 If you decide to start your search via the GFIS IS main page you have to click on GFIS NODES SEARCH on the index on the left side of the page Then the GFIS Node interface will be opened see Figure 17 witha A text field to enter your search key words Pressing the ENTER key of your keyboard or the Search button next to the text field if available will start a search for the keywords in those metadata catalogues belonging to all Nodes that were marked in the list above A button or hyperlink with a Search Locally functionality This button initiates the query on multiple fields see Figure 18 of catalogues linked to the current Node i e in this case of the GFIS IS Node in Vienna only A button or hyp
13. products industry forest products industries pulp and paper industry wood fuelwood roundwood sSawnwood wood technology nonwood forest products non wood forest products bark products bamboos bark canes and rattans wood products wood extractives wood extracts charcoal wood panels timber trade trade wood residues agroforestry agrosilvicultural systems Lagrosilvocultural systems silvopastoral systems farm forestry shifting cultivation forestry operations forestry practices pruning forestry equipment forestry machinery logging long length logging skidding hauling 38 felling shortwood logging tree length logging whole tree logging clear felling primary conversion primary conversion of wood slashing barking non forestry general terms agriculture biology biotechnology botany climate desertification erosion evolution extension extension activities gender meteorology sociology statistics training 39 4 4 Backups of the GFIS Node In order to grant the best possible data security we recommend to back up the system regularly The best practise is to use a streamer with several generations of data backups We propose a daily backup from Monday to Friday using 5 generations of backup media i e you have to provide a set of cartridges for every work day 4 5 Communication and collaboration within the GFIS As of
14. role of research Abstracts of group discussions vol 2 XXI IUFRO world congress 7 12 August 2000 Kuala Lumpur ISBN 983 2181 09 7 P ivinen R et al 2000 IUFRO task force Global Forest Information Service GFIS for improving access to information on forests Abstract p 403 404 in Krishnapillay Baskaran et al eds 2000 Forests and Society the role of research Abstracts of group discussions vol 2 XXI IUFRO world congress 7 12 August 2000 Kuala Lumpur ISBN 983 2181 09 7 PDF 283kb is available online Richards T and Reynolds J 2000 Technical amp design options for implementation Abstract p 404 in Krishnapillay Baskaran et al eds 2000 Forests and Society the role of research Abstracts of group discussions vol 2 XXI IUFRO world congress 7 12 August 2000 Kuala Lumpur ISBN 983 2181 09 7 Szaro R et al 2000 Mobilising and Disseminating information on forests to promote sustainable management in Africa Abstract pp 404 405 In Krishnapillay Baskaran et al eds 2000 Forests and Society the role of research Abstracts of group discussions vol 2 XXI IUFRO world congress 7 12 August 2000 Kuala Lumpur ISBN 983 2181 09 7 PDF 59kb is available online IUFRO Secretariat 2000 GFIS Global Forest Information Service brochure 8pp PDF 406kb is available online Saarikko J P ivinen R Richards T and Sini M 2000 Information server prototype for Global Forest Information Serv
15. the beginning of 2001 there are several GFIS Nodes installed and connected to the GFIS IS web page in Vienna These nodes are The CAB International England The WCMC in Cambridge England The FAO in Rome Italy The SAI GVM unit of the JRC in Ispra Italy Gabon Senegal and Ghana are presently available only as a Backup Version on the GFIS IS in Vienna Since the GFIS system is under permanent development a close collaboration between the GFIS Node administrators and the GFIS programme co ordinator is necessary The programme co ordinator is located at the IUFRO in Vienna please contact him for general issues Address of GFIS Program Co ordinator To be completed For technical problems feedback and proposals please contact the responsible persons in Rome or Vienna Address of GFIS IT Experts To be completed 40 5 The FORNESSA Approach To be done 41 6 Glossary and Literature 6 1 Glossary of GFIS related terms ACP ACP countries are African countries that have ratified the Lome Convention API Application Program Interface ASP Active Server Pages ASP is an open compile free application environment in which you can combine HTML scripts and reusable ActiveX server components to create dynamic and powerful Web based business solutions Active Server Pages enables server side scripting for IIS with native support for both VBScript and J Script CAB International see http www cabi org EFI The E
16. training course objective is to train local people at the African Nodes to be GFIS web masters and database Software managers The course will provide intensive and extensive technical training on understand GFIS philosophy and concepts learn OTHER GFIS NODE SOLUTIONS metadatabase standards concepts and all the technical aspect to develop manage and maintain a GFIS nodal server databases and to realize interoperability web pages People attending this course have a good computer background They will learn concepts about the new system the web service databases metadatabases and database standards HTML pages dynamic server pages and the GFIS software During this course we will also prepare a draft catalogues to bring back to the nodal institutes CRIS 2000 Knowledge at work research information for society Event Internet technology and computer networks have evolved to the point that information providers and users are able to develop innovative approaches to the creation and dissemination of research information The traditional CRIS was the research documentation unit at publicly funded universities which produced research information in forms that were cumbersome and difficult to access With the emergence of the Web CRIS have evolved into dynamic interactive information resources and important means for technology transfer inter institutional collaboration and public access to research information Taller sobre la secuestraci n de carbo
17. AO in Rome is actively driving the technical development of GFIS by the engagement of 5 an informatician responsible for the implementation of 5 GFIS nodes in Africa see chapter 2 1 4 This major task requires a a permanent fine tuning of the GFIS prototype to face the technical situation at the selected institutions in Africa and b an intensive training of the prospective GFIS node administrators in installing and maintaining the system In order to create the best developing and training environment an additional GFIS node has been installed on the server of the FAO but the node is presently not visible outside the FAO computer network 2 1 3 EFIS a European Node of the GFIS Parallel to the on going GFIS activities the European Forest Institute EFI is co ordinating a research project initiated by the JRC in Italy to contribute to the European Forest Information and Communication System EFICS The establishment of the EFICS Regulation established in 1989 by Council Regulation EEC No 1615 89 was a response to attempt to fulfil the increasing need to co ordinate forest information among the Member States of the EU Hence the objective of the EFICS is to collect co ordinate standardise process and disseminate information concerning the forestry sector and its development Consequently the main objective of the above mentioned research project is to build a fully operational prototype of a reliable European Forest In
18. FIS Node software b the database driven configuration of the GFIS Node c the setting up and maintenance of the linked catalogues with metadata 4 1 2 Hard and software requirements The minimal requirements to run a GFIS Node on your web server comprise an adequate hard and software equipment We propose following components 4 1 2 1 Hardware Specifications Basic requirements To be defined 4 1 2 2 Software Specifications Basic requirements To do be defined 30 4 1 3 Three steps to install a GFIS Node 4 1 3 1 Step 1 Download the GFIS Node Files The first step is to download the necessary scripts and database files from the GFIS IS web page in Vienna see Figure 1 All files you need are provided in a zipped archive called FISEASP ZIP contains ASP scripts FISEPHP ZIP contains PHP scripts or FISEJSP contains JSP scripts Select the scripts you prefer note that ASP don t work on Unix Linux without a specific asp supporting software and vice versa to run PHP on Windows you need a specific PHP script support The ZIP archive contains following files Name Format Purpose Example3 Script in asp php jsp Script used to manage ODBC connection to locator database and metadata bases offers selection of dbs to be queried Example31 Script in asp php jsp Script presenting and controlling the query interface and the submittance to example32 asp Example32 Script in
19. Force on Global Forest Information Service Last Revised January 2001 GFIS Consortium FFI CARI CIFOR FAO FORIG IIIFRO INIFRO SPDC LIRC LIRC SAL METLA ODL OFI TROPICS IPM g E Internet Figure 1 The starting page of the GFIS Information Server at the IUFRO in Vienna In principal the web interface of the GFIS mother web page see Figure 1 provides 3 main services for the user 1 The user can add general forestry information to the system and he can search for information that has been added by other users 2 The user can search for pre structured information about forestry data metadata stored in standardised databases of the GFIS Nodes world wide 3 Auxiliary tools like the forestry calendar the login and register procedure hyperlinks to other forestry data providers and the provision of files needed to establish a new GFIS node complete the comprehensive service of the system 10 3 1 1 The Login and Register procedure In order to ensure data reliability and security the access to the GFIS IS system is controlled by a registration and login routine Once registered you can login with your password to use the GFIS The login field is shown in Figure 1 on the upper right corner Before entering the system for the very first time you have to register yourself select a login and password and give details about your person This procedure is mainly implemented to avoid the input of anonymous and un
20. GFIS Global Forest Information Service uhi oF RE Home Calendar About Us Logout a Insert values for new Plantation INDEX NEWS Home 23 01 x IUFRO WEB SITE 23 01 mandatory fields IUFRO GFIS 23 01 GFIS Brochure 23 01 Protected Area IUFRO intranet 23 01 i l e Restricted area 23 01 Name or Title Prelimii 22 01 far Request Description Local Advanced Search GFIS NODES to Search review Add Objects What s New To Do Calendar Annual Calendar Max lenght is 1000 characters 300 words CURRENT GFIS NODE URL l tr SOLUTION download GFIS To Do Location No COUNTRY z Eid Node Software g HEM GETS NODE Associated No keyword SOLUTIONS to realize Keyword FACTORS OF THE ENVIRONMENT BIOLOGY naati aiai search Animal ecology Game and fish management hunting Multi Host Search General General biology A Gi Language No Language Size l BS Starting Date 01 anuay 2000 F x I Done fe Internet Figure 6 Input form for a new plantation on the GFIS IS web page in Vienna 15 3 1 2 2 Searching for information All information that has been entered by the GFIS users can be queried using a simple text field for a free text search see Figure 7 or a more detailed and structured search form see Figure 8 The free text search requires the use of logical operands like AND OR NOT to combine multiple search words The structured search form corresponds to th
21. Institute EFI The mission of the Task Force is to develop a strategy for and implement an Internet based metadata service that will provide co ordinated world wide access to forest information The resulting service will provide multiple benefits to information users and providers including facilitating user friendly access to a greater amount of information and improving the dissemination and quality of forest related data and information IUFRO Secretariat 2000 P ivinen and Schuck 1999 2 1 2 The development of the GFIS prototypes The initial technical realisation of GFIS took part at the J oint Research Centre JRC of the European Commission in Ispra Italy Until December 2000 a first prototype was running there With the leave of the responsible IT experts the server was closed down and re installed at the Technical University of Vienna under the administration of the IUFRO secretariat http iufro ifs tuwien ac at gfis index php The first remotely located node of the GFIS server at the JRC was located at the CAB International in Oxford Meanwhile a few other nodes has been added to the GFIS server in Vienna like the one at the WCMC in Cambridge or the training node at the FAO in Rome Thanks to the JAFER toolkit See chapter 4 1 5 some other libraries at the universities in Oxford and Zurich could be made accessible via the Z39 50 see Glossary protocol Since October 2000 the Forestry Department of the F
22. SN 1024 414X PDF 93 kb is available online P ivinen R Iremonger S Kapos V Landis E Mills R Petrokofsky G Richards T and Schuck A 1998 Better access to information on forests PDF 233 kb is available online Additionally the document is available at EFI http www efi fi files icris pdf 46
23. adata jeld Nam J DC_Title Text A name given to the resource DC_Creator Text An entity primarily responsible for making the content of the resource DBC_Subject Text The topic of the content of the resource DC_Description Text An account of the content of the resource DC_Publisher Text n entity responsible for making the resource available DBC_Contributor Text 4n entity responsible for making contributions to the content of the resource DC_Date Date Time 4 date associated with an event in the life cycle of the resource use YYYY MM DD Format DC_Type_ID Number The nature or genre of the content of the resource ID from type table DC_Format_ID Number The physical or digital manifestation of the resource ID from format table P DC_Identifier Text 4n unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC_Source Text 4 Reference to a resource From which the present resource is derived DC_Lanquage Text 4 language of the intellectual content of the resource DC_Relation Text 4 reference to a related resource DC_Coverage_ISO Text The extent or scope of the content of the resource DC_Coverage_ulx Number longitude of upper left corner of bounding rectangle expressed in decimal degrees east ve and west ve of the Greenwich Meridi DC_Coverage_uly Number latitude of upper left corner of bounding rectangle DC_Coverage_Irx Number longitude of lower right bounding rectangle DC_Coverage_lry Number latitude of lower right bounding rectangle DC_
24. asp php jsp Script used to process the query and check the number of results found for every selected database Example33 Script in asp php jsp Script used to establish the database connection query the database and display the found records in a table Checknrec Script in asp php jsp Script used to check the number of results for every database FISE Database in MS Access format Database to locate the metadatabases to be queried DublinCore Template of a metadatabase for MS Access Template of an empty database with Dublin Core fields to be used to store the metadata of your forestry related information or data Build Script in asp php jsp Script used to manage the ODBC connection with the mainDBRS mdb database to control registration login submission of objects Provided only for regional GFIS mother web pages FISESearch Script in asp php jsp Script used to search forest information i e objects added to the system Provided only for regional GFIS mother web pages MainDBRS Template of a database with user information Database with user information Provided only for regional GFIS mother web pages Table 2 Content of the ZIP archive to install a new GFIS Node 31 4 1 3 2 Step 2 Define the GFIS Node directory Now you have to copy the code of the web pages and the locator database into a directory which is accessible through the i
25. ators for sustainable forest management the ISCI Seminar on August 19 22 1996 in Helsinki The ISCI Seminar supports the work of the Intergovermental Panel on Forests IPF which has been established under the aegis of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development UN CSD IUFRO GFIS Task Force Meeting Event e Universitit fiir Bodenkultur Wien Organisation Figure 16 User interface of the GFIS page in Ispra to query and display the latest news submitted to the system 3 1 3 5 Implemented hyperlinks to external information Hyperlinks to external information are an important feature of the GFIS system It is not represented by a separate interface but instead it s a steady service you can use all the time when an active hyperlink is presented for instance when the details of requested results are displayed Additionally the user can obtain information about the GFIS background and the on going activities of the IUFRO Task Force who initiated the development of GFIS This kind of information can be accessed e g by clicking the About us link or downloading the GFIS Brochure from the main GFIS page in Vienna see Figure 1 24 3 2 Querying the metadata catalogues of the GFIS Nodes To present the different possibilities to query the catalogues of the GFIS Nodes the following explanations are illustrated with screenshots of the currently existing GFIS Nodes in Vienna Rome and Ispra 3 2 1 Metada
26. ce on your web server you should have an idea on how web pages generally work and you should understand the basic principals of managing a database Since the GFIS system architecture is database driven you can easily configure the GFIS Node by doing the necessary settings in a database without understanding the implemented program codes and scripts If you are interested in technical details about the programming code of the GFIS software and the system architecture please refer to the paper System Architecture and Technical Specification of a GFIS Node Sini and Weidenbach 2001 2 What is the Global Forest Information Service GFIS 2 1 History and future 2 1 1 Background The volume of globally generated forestry information is enormous and the number of sources of information is equally overwhelming Increasingly such information is published using electronic means but a substantial part of it remains inaccessible to users The major problem facing information seekers world wide is the location of information sources corresponding to their needs Equally important information providers often do not easily find appropriate for a for presenting their information which then remains inaccessible to others To help address these problems the International Union of Forest Research Organisations IUFRO established the Global Forest Information Service GFIS Task Force in the autumn of 1998 led by Risto P ivinen of the European Forest
27. coverage_ID Text BC_Rights Text Information about rights held in and over the resource GFIS_Status Text Quality check information about the status of the resource e g reviewed on not reviewed etc Figure 21 The structure of a GFIS compatible database using Dublin Core elements to describe the content of forestry related data and information If you plan to set up a metadatabase for the GFIS please download the templates from the GFIS IS web page or contact the IUFRO GFIS Task Force to get the necessary database parameters 4 3 Using standardised forestry terms The web based provision of globally available forestry data requires a certain standardisation of keywords and categories In order to facilitate the access and the search for information GFIS is considering international standards to archive and sort the submitted information The IUFRO GFIS Task Force is discussing adequate standards following is a proposal of a keyword list or a GFIS Thesauri based on the CAB and AgroVoc thesauri by Roger Mills see Consolidated GFIS documentation doc 4 3 1 Proposal of a GFIS Thesauri from Roger Mills The following terms are taken from Agrovoc and CABThesaurus grouped under 10 broad forestry headings and one general heading Terms unique to one or other Thesaurus are in square brackets where no brackets are present the term is in both thesauri 37 arboriculture amenity forests amenity planting arboreta ornamental p
28. e input form shown in chapter 3 1 2 1 and allows a detailed search for different items see Figure 8 yj GFIS IUFRO Main Website Microsoft Internet Explorer E ir y eak gt QA BA Fie Edt view Favorites Tools Help Links gt Address E3 http jiufro ifs tuwien ac at gfis index php GFIS Global Forest Information Service Home Calendar About Us Logout INDEX NEWS ome 23 IUFRO WEB SITE 23 01 IUFRO GFIS 23 01 GFIS Brochure 23 01 i TUFRO intranet goat Free Text Search use AND OR and NOT to combine queries ri ri i Senna 22i07 Use to match any string any character Quote phrases e g text phrase Request 7 5 J Local Advanced Search Forest f GFIS NODES to _ _ _ Search review i i i i Add Objects R i What s New To Do F i i p Calendar Annual Calendar t F 4 P Re CURRENT GFIS NODE f SOLUTION p download GEIS ToDo NEW GFIS TaskForce Forum Node Software OTHER GFIS NODE SOLUTIONS to realize interoperability search Jafer Multi Host Search IUFRO Task Force on Global Forest Information Service Last Revised January 2001 GFIS Consortium FFI CARI CIFOR FAO FORIG IIFRO IHFRO SPDC IRC IRC SAI MFTI A ODI OFI TROPICS HPM Done _ interne Figure 7 A text field on the index page of the GFIS IS web page in Vienna allows a free text search to retrieve information from t
29. ects see Figure 4 and it will be exclusively stored in the GFIS IS 12 Z GFIS IUFRO Main Website Microsoft Internet Explorer e x weak gt OE GA P Fe Edt view Favorites Tools Help Links gt EE Address E http fiufro ifs tuwien ac at gfissaddobjecthome php GFIS Global Forest Information Service Home Calendar About Us Logout Select the object you want to add to GFIS system INDEX NEWS Home 23 01 IUFRO WEB SITE 23 01 Organisation IUFRO GFIS 23 01 GFIS Brochure 23 01 IUFRO intranet 23 01 Restricted srea 23 01 Event Preliminar 22 01 Request Local Advanced Search GFIS NODES to Publication Search review dd Objects What s New To Do Calendar Announcement Annual Calendar CURRENT GFIS NODE SOLUTION Specific Forestry data Protected Area download GFIS ToDo Node Software OTHER GFIS NODE Specific Forestry data Plantation SOLUTIONS to realize interoperability search Jafer Multi Host Search http iufro fs tuwien ac at ofis preaddplan php Internet Figure 4 User interface of the GFIS Vienna web page to select an object to be added to the system You can enter or search for 1 an Organisation that is operating in a forestry related field 2 an Event like a forest scientific conference etc 3 a Publication like scientific articles manuals or books etc 4 an Announcement like personnel news given awards etc 5 a Protected Area
30. eld The_LinkURL is the First part of the URL pointing to the resources if accessible on line This feature is only needed for a functionality of a GFIS mother web page The field theLink determines the Number of the database fields to use as reference for the link only needed for the mother web page functionality The field theLinkURLend Last part of the URL if needed only needed for the mother web page functionality 4 1 5 Addressing databases with J AFER Within the GFIS concept J AFER is used as an alternative way to access databases in a heterogeneous system environment using the Z39 50 protocol and J ava Following is a brief description of the JAFER Toolkit Project at the University of Oxford if you want to learn more about it please visit the J AFER web page at http www lib ox ac uk jafer Z39 50 is a computer to computer communications protocol designed to Support searching and retrieval of information full text documents bibliographic data images and multimedia in a distributed network environment Based on client server architecture and operating over the Internet the Z39 50 protocol is supporting an increasing number of applications Quote by William Moen on http www lib ox ac uk jafer The goal of Java Access For Electronic Resources J AFER is to produce an easy to use visual toolkit to ensure that users can build portals and information sources without having to deal with the intricate aspects of the protocols in
31. erlink with a Global Search functionality Pressing this button starts the query on multiple fields See Figure 18 of catalogues belonging to all Nodes marked in the list above Z GFIS IUFRO Main Website Microsoft Internet Explorer lj x Address a ttp fiufro ifs tuwien ac at gfis snodehome php zil Back gt amp amp zij File Edit view Favorites Tools Help Links GFIS Global Forest Information Service Home Calendar About Us Logout This web site is one of the possible searchable GFIS Node Current Sources NODES NI fee aga M GFIS Node in Gabon IUFRO WEB SITE 23 01 M GFIS Node in Senegal IUFRO GFIS 23 01 GFIS Brochure 23 01 M GFIS Node in Ghana IUFRO intranet 23 01 Restrided area 23 01 M IUFRO GFIS Information Server Preliminar 22008 M CABI Forestry Abstracts Request 3 Local Advanced Search D oxford Library GFIS NODES to Search ritat T ETH Library NEBIS dd Objects I university Library of Zurich fwhat s New To Do Calendar Annual Calendar Foresd CURRENT GFIS NODE SOLUTION download GFIS ToD TEETE ne Search locally Search globally this node all nodes OTHER GFIS NODE SOLUTIONS to realize interoperability search afer Multi Host Search E Internet Figure 17 The main GFIS Node page in Vienna offers the possibility to search databases that are physically located on the servers in Vienna or on the servers of several GFIS Node Institutions
32. et Explorer Fie Edt View Favorites Tools Help Links gt A CYGFIS GFIS Global Forest Information Service Home _ _ _ IUFRO WEB SITE IGFIS Brochure IUFRO intranet Restricted area Preliminary Request ch a Home Calendar About Us Help Logout User Registration Part 2 Login Details Check that your details are correct before choosing your Login and Password Click the BACK to return to the previous page to corrent any mistakes mandatory fields NAME NOTES WEB SITE http www myweb net Johny Walker CURRENT GFIS NODE SOLUTION download GFIS Node Software OTHER GFIS NODE SOLUTIONS to realize interoperability If your details are correct then you need to select a Login name and password Enter your Password twice to make sure you havent made a mistake You will be asked for your Login and Password every time you log into this site LOGIN fae PASSWORD l CONFIRM PASSWORD l E R resetform register internet Figure 3 The registration interface part 2 of the GFIS IS web page in Vienna 3 1 2 Adding and searching forestry related information After entering the GFIS IS system you can either add or search for forestry related information Please note that this functionality is limited to the GFIS Information Server i e it is not implemented in the GFIS Nodes The information is categorised into 6 obj
33. formation System EFIS which is to compile process analyse and disseminate available forestry information of various heterogeneous data sources on an international national and regional level Furthermore the principles of EFIS will follow the activities of the IUFRO Global Forest Information Service GFIS Taskforce why EFIS can be seen as a future European GFIS node The project is funded for 14 month and started in February 2001 the consortium consists of EFI in Finland UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre in England UNEP WCMC the Dresden University of Technology in Germany and the German National Research Centre for Information Technology GMD 2 1 4 GFIS Africa With the approval of the 3 year project by the European Commission DG VIII Mobilizing scientific information on forests to promote their sustainable management in ACP countries ACP countries African countries that are signatories to the Lom Convention the establishment of five nodes within Africa began These nodes will facilitate access to and dissemination of scientific and technical information on forests and their utilization The location of these nodes are Western Africa Ghana and Senegal Eastern Africa Kenya Southern Africa Zimbabwe and Central Africa Gabon GFIS and its regional nodes will be a valuable information resource for decision makers in tropical forest countries and others In particular it will provide forest information and ge
34. hange the complex scripting codes but instead you only have to edit the corresponding fields in the locator database The locator database is called FISE or locator and it contains two tables labelled with DBName and DBType The table DBName lists information about the location of your metadatabases and the table DBType contains information about the type and format of the database used 4 1 4 1 The Table DBName Structure Column Name Description Available Determines if the metadatabase is available or not If this entry is true the database will appear on the query form see Figure 17 and will be searched according to the entered keywords ID_DB Unique identifier for the database DB_Type Unique Identifier for the type of the database The codes given for this item refer to the content of the DBType table DBDescription Brief description of the metadatabase URLwebsite Complete URL address pointing to the directory that contains the GFIS download files listed in Table 2 DBName Name of the metadatabase or ODBC or JDBC entry The database has to be in the same directory like the GFIS software or in a subdirectory of it If you place the database in a subdirectory you have to give the subdirectory name as well e g subdir_name db_name mdb see example in Table 4 The_LinkURL First part of the URL pointing to the resources if accessible on line This feature is only needed for a functionality
35. he system Z GFIS IUFRO Main Website Microsoft Internet Explorer E UERO GEIS GEIS Brochure IERO intranet Restricted area Local Advanced Search GEIS NODES Search _ CURRENT GFIS NODE SOLUTION download GFIS Node are OTHER GFIS NODE SOLUTIONS to realize interoperability earch Home Calendar About Us GFIS Search omens DSS AMERICAN SAMOA No keyword FACTORS OF THE ENVIRONMENT BIOLOGY Animal ecology Game and fish management hunting General General biology Help Logout Figure 8 The well structured interface used on the GFIS IS page in Vienna to query the system database for submitted objects 17 3 1 2 3 Display of found information The system will search the database using either the keywords you selected from the list or the keywords that you entered into the text field The search results are presented in a table with a hyperlink to the users homepage Figure 9 and a link to a more detailed page with the personal data of the user who submitted the information to the GFIS system see Figure 10 Z GFIS IUFRO Main Website Microsoft Internet Explorer Address a http iufro ifs tuwien ac at afis nsearchresultshome php alll Back gt amp a ll File Edit View Favorites Tools Help inks gt 4 GFIS GFIS Global Forest Information Service iV Home Calendar About Us Help Logout a All 6 matching
36. i e designated and legally protected natural areas 6 a Plantation i e afforestations and commercial plantations 13 3 1 2 1 Adding information to the system Every object has a specific form to be filled in Figure 5 illustrates the input form for an event as used on the GFIS IS web page in Vienna yj GFIS IUFRO Main Website Microsoft Internet Explorer E address E http fiufro ifs tuwien ac at gfisfaddeventhome php alll Bak gt v amp a A File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Links ad GFIS Global Forest Information Service Home Calendar About Us Help Logout a Insert values for new Event mandatory fields Organisation Name or Title a Description Max lenght is 1000 characters 300 words Edit Profile URL C SOLUTION Location NO COUNTRY z Q 3 5 2 F wn z Mm download GFIS Node Associated No keyword _ e TETTE Keyword FACTORS OF THE ENVIRONMENT BIOLOGY ad Animal ecology Game and fish management hunting xl Language R Event Objectives Z X E fig internet Figure 5 Input form to add an event Following Figure 6 shows the input form for a plantation on the GFIS IS page in Vienna 14 E GFIS IUFRO Main Website Microsoft Internet Explorer E Address a http fiufro ifs tuwien ac at gfis addplanhome php zJ Back gt 4a File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Links A GFIS
37. ice GFIS In Joint FAO ECE ILO Committee on Forest Technology Management and Training Workshop Forestry Information Systems 2000 16 20 May 2000 Hyyti l Finland 7pp PDF 61 kb is available online P ivinen R Schuck A 1999 Better access to information on forests EFI News 1 99 p 7 PDF 967 kb is available online P ivinen R Burley J Landis E Mills R Petrokofsky G Reynolds J Richards T Schuck A 1999 Global Forest Information Service Creating a Common Vision Paper presented at the Global Forest Information Service Side Event The Third Session of the United Nations Intergovernmental Forum on Forest IFF3 Geneva 3 14 May 1999 IUFRO Occasional Paper No 12 ISSN 1024 414X PDF 60 kb is available online 45 Tim Richards and J ake Reynolds 1999 Global Forest Information Service Technical Options Paper Paper presented at the Global Forest Information Service Side Event The Third Session of the United Nations Intergovernmental Forum on Forest IFF3 Geneva 3 14 May 1999 IUFRO Occasional Paper No 12 ISSN 1024 414X PDF 94 kb is available online Szaro R Martin M Landis E 1999 Mobilizing scientific information on forests to promote their sustainable management in ACP countries Paper presented at the Global Forest Information Service Side Event The Third Session of the United Nations Intergovernmental Forum on Forest IFF3 Geneva 3 14 May 1999 IUFRO Occasional Paper No 12 IS
38. lants tree surgery forest ecology biodiversity canopy forest litter forest soils forest trees slash synecology wildlife forest resources communal forests forest land forest ownership production forests protected forests protection forests protective forests forest plantations forest stands stand characteristics seed orchards seed stands forest policy forestry policy forest economics forestry development social forestry forest health forest pathology forest dieback dieback forest decline forest pests silviculture intensive silviculture regeneration artificial regeneration natural regeneration silvicultural systems coppice system coppice coppice with standard system coppice with standards high forest system high forest forestry plus trees tree classes forest management genetic resources afforestation felling cycle rotations multiple use forestry multiple use forest inventories stand improvement mensuration forest mensuration assortment tables assortments dendrochronology volume tables forest surveys surveys forest workers forestry workers foresters deforestation geographical information systems mapping cartography remote sensing urban forestry forest recreation recreation tree breeding controlled burning forest fires sustainability forest products forest
39. lity Accountancy business planning and administration earch Language Multi Host Search Soe a AL S Estonian Ethiopic Login Name mawe Number records per 20 Home Calendar About Us Logout Ethiopic IUFRO GEIS Login Name mawe UFR ranet Number TETE records per po page CONTACT INFORMATION N Calendar C j o ontact for this Annual Calendar Markus Weidenbach entry CURRENT GFIS NODE SOLUTION Via Galileo Galilei 32 21020 Taino VA Italia download GFIS Node Address Software OTHER GFIS NODE SOLUTIONS Phone 0039 0331 957431 to realize interoperability h 0 9 Jafer msaran Fax 0049 89 244325559 Multi Host Search weidenbach tin it 0 9 Submit Figure 13 Second part of the form to edit the user profile 3 1 3 3 The GFIS Calendar The calendar provides a commonly known format to get an overview on future forestry related events like a scientific congress user meetings training courses etc In fact the calendar is another interface to display the information submitted by the user see chapter 3 1 2 You can choose between an annual Figure 14 and a monthly Figure 15 calendar form GFIS IUFRO Main Website Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 x Address a http fiufro ifs tuwien ac at gfis acalendarhome php alll Back gt g a 3j Fie Edit View Favorites Tools Help Links z i GFIS Global Forest Information Service
40. lustrated in Figure 22 42 Figure 22 The GFIS concept GFIS Information Server GFIS IS This will co ordinate the house keeping functions of the GFIS nodes e g user registry general information discussion forums list servers gateway to distributed metadata catalogues GFIS Node The first entry point for those accessing the GFIS will be a web site of a GFIS partner or node From there the user will be able to search simultaneously the metadata catalogues of all participating nodes to seek desired information GFIS affiliated node A forest related web site that does not provide a metadata catalogue but which will be linked to the GFIS Information Server IUFRO International Union of Forest Research Organisations ISO TC 211 International Metadata Standard http www statkart no isotc211 welcome html set used e g by the Canadian Forest Service 43 JAFER The goal of Java Access For Electronic Resources J AFER is to produce an easy to use visual toolkit to ensure that users can build portals and information sources without having to deal with the intricate aspects of the protocols involved thus allowing them to concentrate on developing the actual content Learn more about the JAFER Toolkit Project at http www lib ox ac uk jafer Locator The mechanism that facilitates interoperability among GFIS nodes The locator can be used to organise catalogues into thematic categories Furthermore it enables each
41. nerating integrated information products Szaro et al 2000 The use of the World Wide Web is rapidly increasing in the developing countries and GFIS will give agencies in those countries an opportunity to use information that has up to now only been accessible through inter library loans or after long searches through foreign institutional facilities One staff member is located at FAO in Rome to develop the interfaces for GFIS AFRICA with the support of external consultants and to set up the needed equipment and training Each node will be provided equipment training for an information specialist and operational costs for each of the five nodes Szaro et al 2000 As the project is implemented many new partners will be included to help develop the network The objectives are 1 to improve access to reliable scientifically based information on forests in ACP countries and their utilisation 2 to build capacity in selected regional research institutions to develop and manage internet based systems to facilitate broad access to research information on forests in the ACP countries 3 to share experience and good practice in information management between ACP countries and 4 to enhance integration and comparability between national data on forests throughout the ACP countries Szaro et al 2000 2 1 5 Future perspectives of the GFIS The ambition of the GFIS is to have regional GFIS Information Servers like the first one in Vienna in e
42. nna Italy Joint Research http www trees gvm sai jrc it fise Examples example3 ASP Centre Space Applications Institute Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit Italy FAO Rome For internal use only Margherita Sini England WCMC Cambridge England CABI http 130 88 203 140 GFIS example3 ASP Gabon Senegal Ghana Kenya Table 1 List of existing GFIS Nodes their URL address and their webmasters 3 How to use the GFIS system 3 1 Main features of the GFIS Information Server GFIS IS To present the different user possibilities of the GFIS IS the following brief explanations are illustrated with screenshots of the currently existing GFIS IS in Vienna GFIS IUFRO Main Website Microsoft Internet Explorer Address 42 http fiufro ifs tuwien ac at afisfindex php X ll Back gt E zij File Edit view Favorites Tools Help A GFIS Global Forest Information Service Home Calendar About Us Logout Home _ _ _ IUFRO WEB SITE IUFRO intranet Member Login Member ID Free Text Search use AND OR and NOT to combine queries Use to match any string any character Quote phrases e g text phrase ed Search IGFIS NODES Search dd Objects CURRENT GFIS NODE NEW GEIS TaskForce Forum SOLUTION download GFIS Node Software OTHER GFIS NODE SOLUTIONS to realize interoperability earch Multi Host Search IUFRO Task
43. no Event comprender todo E Done internet Figure 9 On the Vienna GFIS IS page the results of the search for an event are shown with a hyperlink to more details about it see Figure 10 18 E GFIS IUFRO Main Website Address a http fiufro ifs tuwien ac at gfis showeventhome php x il seBack a a l Microsoft Internet Explorer a Fie Edt View Favorites Tools Help Links gt EE A GFIS GFIS Global Forest Information Service UFRO WEB SITE UFRO GFIS FIS Brochure FRO intranet estricted area reliminary Request ocal Advanced Search FIS NODES Search dd Objects What s New alendar nnual Calendar dit Profile O y i D r M z a al n z i m SOLUTION download GFIS Node Software x m D D z m W d G 2 z w to realize interoperability Home Calendar About Us Help Logout a Detail page for Diseases and Insects in Forest Nurseries 4th Meeting of IUFRO Working Party 7 03 04 Event detail Title Diseases and Insects in Forest Nurseries 4th Meeting of IUFRO Working Party 7 03 04 EVT Description Technical programme committee Dr Robert L James USDA Forest Service USA Dr Robert Perrin NRA France Dr Arja Lilja Vantaa Reseach Centre Finland Dr Heikki Smolander Suonenjoki Research Station Finland Dr Maria I Salerno Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y F
44. nternet It is important to know that this directory with the scripts and the locator database will be addressed when a query from a remote GFIS Node is launched to search your databases It is advisable to give the chosen directory a name or an URL alias which is compliant to other GFIS Nodes We propose GFIS_ NODE If you map this directory name or the alias to the root of your internet server all requests on your databases will be addressed to http yourdomain GFIS_ NODE 4 1 3 3 Step 3 Configure the locator database The next step to do is to tell the system where the Dublin Core compatible catalogues you want to query are located the way how you set up these metadatabases is shown in chapter 4 1 5 and which database type you are using In order to successfully link the databases to the system you have to change some fields in the locator database The locator database is a crucial component of the GFIS architecture that s why its function is explained in more detail in a separate chapter see chapter 4 1 4 there you will also see what you have to do to configure the locator database correctly 32 4 1 4 Configuration of the locator database The locator database is a variable component of the GFIS architecture that can be used to adjust the system to the specific environment of your GFIS Node Using a locator database to set the location and the database type is an easy and user friendly way because there is no need to c
45. of a GFIS mother web page theLink Number of the database fields to use as reference for the link only needed for the mother web page functionality theLinkURLend Last part of the URL if needed only needed for the mother web page functionality Table 3 Structure of the table DBName 33 Example Avail 1D DB DBDescription URLwebsite DBName_ The LinkURL able DB Type Yes 1 1 TFIS JRC http www trees dbs TFIS http www trees gvm sai 10 gvm sai jrc it fise jrc it fise RC build asp DB Tropical Forest IRC mdb lt Information System Yes 2 1 ETFRN European http www trees qbps ETFR http www trees gvm sai 10 Tropical Forest gvm sai jrc it fise N mdb jrc it fise RC build asp DB 1 amp id Research Network Forest Contacts Yes 3 1 EU Projects eo dbs odi tr nr enero maid 10 htm gvm sai jrc it fise AR odi tropics projects IRC opics mdb Yes 4 1 FORIG Forestry Tee dbs mill EE ET 10 Research Institute gvm sai jrc it fise mdb irc it ise RC build asp DB 46id of Ghana aan No 5 1 CABI Forestry dbs cabi http www trees qvm sai Abstracts mdb a ima id No 6 2 TFIS JRC htto www tress TIS SQL Tropical Forest gvm sai jrc it fise R Information lee System on SQL server Yes 7 1 Forest http www trees dbs TFI Sx http www trees gvm sai Conservation gvm sai jrc it fise Glen mdb irc it fise
46. orestales Argentina Dr Jack Sutherland Applied Forest Science Canada Scientific board Dr Jack Sutherland Dr Robert Perrin Prof Timo Kurkela Dr Jarmo Holopainen Conference purpose To review progress in the scientific understanding of the problematic to produce healthy forest seedlings since the last meeting of Working Party in Gainesville in 1996 To explore the role of nursery technology in integrated pest control To understand of disease developments in tree nurseries Created on 15 44 25 02 Mar 2001 Submitted By Margherita Sint Url http www metla fiiufro wu70304 meeting htm Location FINLAND Language English Keyword MARKETING OF FOREST PRODUCTS ECONOMICS OF FOREST Starting Date 25 Jul 2000 at 08 00 00 Multi Host Search Ending Date 27 Jul 2000 at 16 00 00 Objectives The purpose of the conference is to review progress in the scientific understanding of the Price problematic to produce healthy forest seedlings since the last meeting of Working Party in Gainesvil CONTACT INFORMATION internet Figure 10 A dynamically generated web page showing the information found in the GFIS IS database 3 1 3 GFIS 1S Auxiliary Tools 3 1 3 1 Downloadable Files One of the GFIS objectives is to increase the global access to forestry related data According to the GFIS system architecture this goal can only be achieved if prospective data providers are using the same system standards i e the GFIS scrip
47. reliable information into the system Whenever you enter forestry related information into the GFIS IS system your personal information will be added to it And whenever somebody is retrieving information from the system he she will immediately see who entered the data and if necessary could easily get in touch with this person GFIS IUFRO Main Website Microsoft Internet Explorer laj x Address a http iufro ifs tuwien ac at gfisjreg1home php zJ Bak gt Q amp a zj Fie Edit View Favorites Tools Help Links i A GFIS GFIS Global Forest Information Service Home Calendar About Us Help Logout Home _ IUFRO WEB SITE User Registration Part 1 Personal Data GEIS Brochure mandatory fields Restricted area NAME Register name and surname i eg Johny Walker GEIS NODES Search WEB SITE uri s eg http www myweb net NOTES CURRENT GFIS NODE a SOLUTION download GFIS Node reset form continue to the next page Software OTHER GFIS NODE SOLUTIONS to realize interoperability earch R Multi Host Search The SOMLib Digital ibrary Experiments IUFRO Abstracts Internet Figure 2 The registration interface part 1 of the GFIS IS web page in Vienna 11 E GFIS IUFRO Main Website Address a http fiufro ifs tuwien ac at gfisfreg2home php x ll Back gt 3 a Microsoft Intern
48. rieving information from remote databases http Icweb loc gov z3950 agency Z39 50 is an international standard for information retrieval that has its roots in the digital library community It is both an ANSI standard and an ISO standard The protocol specification standardizes the query syntax search field identities and default format of returned records and provides mechanisms for access control and server self description The Z39 50 information retrieval model is domain independent domain specializations are provided by an additional mechanism referred to as a application profiles These are comprised of specific sets of attributes operators and rules of implementation particular to a domain http ceonet ccrs nrcan gc ca about en 2 3 html e JDBC The JDBC 2 0 API is the latest update of the JDBC API It contains many new features including scrollable result sets and the new SQL 1999 formerly SQL 3 data types http java sun com products jdbc features html 44 6 2 Literature Please see http iufro boku ac at iufro taskforce tfgfis putfgfis htm for available online documents if indicated in brackets Weidenbach M and Sini M 2001 System Architecture and Technical Specification of a GFIS Node Draft Version Mills R A 2000 The role of libraries and information centres in the global forest information service Abstract p 403 in Krishnapillay Baskaran et al eds 2000 Forests and Society the
49. sults are displayed 27 3 2 3 Displaying the results found in the catalogues Before presenting the detailed results of the search a dynamically generated page is informing the user about the amount of records found in every pre selected database see Figure 19 Z GFIS IUFRO Main Website Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 x Address a http fiufro ifs tuwien ac at gfis smodehome php alll Back gt amp a File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Links i GFIS Global Forest Information Service Home Calendar About Us Logout INDEX NEWS Results Home 23 01 IUFRO WEB SITE 23 01 ee enn o GFIS Node in Gabon Server On Show Result Number of Items 67 Restided area Sod GFIS Node in Senegal Server On Show Result Number of Items 25 Ereliminar ao GFIS Node in Ghana Server On Show Result Number of Items 60 ea nad Sear IUFRO GFIS Information Server Server On Show Result Number of Items 37 i CABI Forestry Abstracts Server On Show Result Number of Items 7 calendar ie Oxford Library Server On Show Result Number of Items 28 annual calsnidar ETH Library NEBIS Server On Show Result Number of Items 19 ED a University Library of Zurich Server On Show Result Number of Items 87 download GFIS To Do Node Software R OTHER GFIS NODE SOLUTIONS to realize interoperability search Jafer Multi Host Search Done ag Internet
50. ta and databases used for the GFIS Nodes In order to structure the huge amount of globally available forestry data a system is needed that is able to describe all kind of forestry information like maps publications software programs etc The detailed description of data is called metadata Making forestry related metadata available to potential users will also improve the communication between all stakeholders like forestry data providers forestry institutions and private and public data users To support this process a standardised form of metadata is needed because it helps to facilitate the exchange of data and the search for specific products will become more efficient Presently scientists are discussing the suitability of different standards on an international level Existing preliminary standards are under permanent development like the one of the US American Federal Geographic Data Committee FGDC the SO TC211 standard or the Dublin Core elements which are seen as the most proposing possibility reach the objectives of the GFIS The Dublin Core is an international initiative coming from the library and publishing communities It is based on consensus it is entirely open and it is increasingly being looked at by a wide range of industries Basically the Dublin Core is a list of elements or table fields like Title Creator Subject Date etc used to describe the content of forestry data In chapter 4 1 5
51. to the database type you are using 4 Please enter in the corresponding field of the DBDescription column a brief description of the content of your database This information will be displayed on the query interface to help the user to select the right databases for his query see Figure 17 Note that the field Available has to be set to true 5 The column URLWebsite defines the web address of your GFIS Node The URL given in this field has to point to the directory of the GFIS software i e the GFIS download files listed in Table 2 This information tells the system where the program scripts the locator database and the metadatabases are located Please enter the correct web address of the GFIS files and scripts 6 In the fields of the column DBName you have to write the name of the metadatabase Please note that the metadatabase physically has to be either in the GFIS root directory given in the URLWebsite field or in a sub ordered folder of this directory If you place the database in a subdirectory you have to add the name of the subdirectory to the database name separated by a backslash e g subdir_name db_name mdb see examples in Table 4 35 The last three columns of the locator database are only needed if you want to expand the functionality of your GFIS Node to the features of the GFIS mother web pages where the user can add and search objects like announcement event plantation etc see details in chapter 3 1 2 The fi
52. ts to do the query and the standardised databases used to a define the location of the catalogues locator database and b store the metadata of the forestry related resources To facilitate the establishment of new GFIS Nodes a set of installation files can be downloaded from the GFIS IS web pages see left column of Figure 1 Chapter 4 1 3 describes how to use the download files to install a new GFIS Node 19 3 1 3 2 User Registration and Profile Control As shown in Figure 3 every user has the possibility to submit his personal data to the system The submitted information will be stored in a database and can be displayed on demand as shown in Figure 11 Z GFIS IUFRO Main Website Microsoft Internet Explorer E address 2 http sfiufro ifs tuwien ac at gfis showmemberhome php z il Se Back gt A File Edt View Favorites Tools Help Gris Home _ IUFRO WEB SITE IUFRO intranet Local Advanced Search IGFIS NODES Search CURRENT GFIS NODE SOLUTION download GFIS Node Software OTHER GFIS NODE SOLUTIONS to realize interoperability earch Multi Host Search GFIS Global Forest Information Service Detail page for Markus Weidenbach Event detail Title Markus Weidenbach USR Description Consultant for Geographic Information Management Forestry and Land Use Planning Created on 02 25 26 14 Apr 2001 Submitted By Markus Weidenbach Url httpv c
53. uropean Forest Institute in Joensuu Finland EFICS The European Forest Information and Communication System The establishment of the EFICS Regulation established in 1989 by Council Regulation EEC No 1615 89 was a response to attempt to fulfil the increasing need to co ordinate forest information among the Member States of the EU Hence the objective of the EFICS is to collect co ordinate standardise process and disseminate information concerning the forestry sector and its development EFIS European Forest Information System From the beginning of 2001 until 2002 the European Forest Institute EFI is co ordinating a research project initiated by the JRC in Ispra Italy to develop a fully operational prototype of a reliable European Forest Information System EFIS which is to compile process analyse and disseminate available forestry information of various heterogeneous data sources on an international national and regional level Furthermore the principles of EFIS will follow the activities of the IUFRO Global Forest Information Service GFIS Taskforce why EFIS can be seen as a future European GFIS node FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee www fdgc gov Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata FORNESSA GIST Generic Information Server Toolkit http www gist jrc it default GFIS The Global Forest Information Service initiated by the IUFRO The main technical components of the web based GFIS system are il
54. very continent or geographic region So there shall be at least one GFIS IS in Africa in Europe in Asia and Latin America Every regional GFIS IS is providing links to multiple GFIS Nodes within its geographical responsibility Between the regional GFIS IS a daily replication of the GFIS IS databases is foreseen in order to avoid data redundancies So within a short delay of one day all registered user will find their specific user profile and the submitted forestry information on all GFIS IS worldwide 2 2 The GFIS community 2 2 1 People and Organisations As of June 2000 the members of the IUFRO GFIS Task Force and Sub groups are Awang Kamis Putra University Malaysia Cobbinah Joseph Forestry Research Institute of Ghana Hailu Michael Deputy Coordinator Centre for International Forestry Research Ibrahim Mohamed University of Greenwich Kanninen Markku Centro Agron mico Tropical de Investigaci n y Ensenanza Landis Eric Harry Reid Environmental Center Langor David IUFRO Special Programme for Developing Countries Martin Michael Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Mayhew John World Conservation Monitoring Centre Mills Roger University of Oxford Paivinen Risto Coordinator European Forest Institute Petrokofsky Gillian CAB International Richards Tim World Conservation Monitoring Centre Saarikko Jarmo Secretary Webmaster Finnish Forest Research Institute Schaitza Erich Empresa Brasileira
55. volved thus allowing them to concentrate on developing the actual content 4 2 Setting up a GFIS compatible metadatabase As briefly explained in chapter 3 2 1 the format of the databases that contain the metadata about forestry related information has to be compatible with the GFIS metadata standard This standardised form is basically derived from the work of the Dublin Core initiative The Dublin Core is not an official metadata standard but it is a commonly accepted and wide spread form to describe data and information especially of the library and publishing community Please visit the official web site of the Dublin Core Initiative at http purl org DC to learn more about it It s a crucial feature of the GFIS system that exclusively metadatabases of a given format including pre defined Dublin Core elements can be 36 addressed by the GFIS query software That s why everybody who is interested in linking his database to the GFIS system has to use the metadatabase parameters defined by the IUFRO GFIS Task Force A MS Access database template can be downloaded from the GFIS mother web page in Vienna or Ispra The GFIS system architecture works independent of the operating system and the database type i e it will run on a Windows and Unix Linux environment using different types of ODBC and J DBC compliant databases like those shown in Table 6 The following figure shows the structure of the database used to store GFIS compliant met
56. ypermap com f Location ITALY Language English Keyword Land use land use policy Afforestation policy mawe Page Size 20 CONTACT INFORMATION Name Markus Weidenbach Address Via Galileo Galilei 32 21020 Taino VA Italia Phone 0039 0331 957431 Fax 0049 89 244325559 Home Calendar About Us Logout E mail weidenbach tin it Note EDIT USER PROFILE http iuFro ifs tuwien ac at ofis readmember php OID 56 ag Internet Figure 11 Personal information is stored in a database and can be displayed on demand At any time the user can change his personal co ordinates by selecting the Edit User Profile interface see Figure 12 and Figure 13 20 T GFIS IUFRO Main Website Microsoft Internet Explorer Home Calendar About Us Logout Edit User Profile IUFRO GFIS mandatory fields GFIS Brochure Announcement HUERO intranet Name or Title Markus Weidenbach tt Restricted area Description Consultant for Geographic Information Management Forestry and Land Use egiste Planning Add Ob Max lenght is 1000 characters 300 words Ce URL hitp cypermap com CURRENT GFIS NODE Poranon maii SOLUTION Associated Land use land use policy Afforestation policy Keyword Other methods to implement forest policy 5 Public supervision and regulation of forestry inc i THEW OFIS HODESGLUTIONS MARKETING OF FOREST PRODUCTS ECONOMICS OF FOREST to realize interoperabi

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