Project Datacenter Nature and Landscape (DNL)

Time series of consistent datasets are fundamental for the species management of the FOEN program “biotope conservation in Switzerland”. The purpose of the project DNL at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) is to integrate existing national biotope inventories (bogs, flood plains, meadows, etc.) into a database and connect it to further datasources of the FOEN. Particularly the lineage of the data with all scientific and political processes shall be documented, e.g. using metadata. Web interfaces allow to access DNL data and other thematically related databases for spatial analysis using GIS functionality. Semantic structures implementing ontologies offer open and intuitive search facilities.

The OWL-Ontologies of the DNL project can be used for research purposes. Order by e-mail: dnl@wsl.ch

Team

Sandro Bischof, Curdin Derungs, Rolf Grütter, Rolf Meile, Enikö Stüdeli-Fey, Lukas Wotruba

Project manager: Lukas Wotruba

Executive coordinator WSL-BAFU: Martin Hägeli

Executive director BAFU: Jürg Schenker

Former team members

Andri Baltensweiler, Angéline Bedolla, Martin Brändli, Nick Baumberger, Laurence Cuche, Marcel Frehner, Christian Ginzler, Susette Haegi, Corinna Heye, Kalin Müller, Thomas Scharrenbach, Jörg Sparenborg, Charlotte Steinmeier, Bettina Waldvogel

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