Establishment of Continuous Life Cycle Inventory Database Registry


1. Project title: Establishment of a Continuous Life Cycle Inventory Database Registry

2. Type of project: Co-Governed

3. Number of participants: 2 developers and around 100 database developers entering their information

4. Scope of the project: Global

5. Period: From May 2007 and on

6. Specific Goals: 
  • Continuous data service on database level
  • Establishing an information service down to data set level

7. Outputs until now: 
  • May 2007: Launch of the first version of the database registry
  • Global survey launched on users' and database providers' needs (110 responses received) with concluding results on the need of a database registry as a search tool online to present all databases available ranked by data quality criteria (60% of positive answers from users and database providers).
  • Second survey done on technicalities which presents suggestions and ideas from stakeholders on the final proposal of the database registry
  • New version of the database registry implemented on a web server (see below)

8. Progress done so far: 100%

9. Next meeting: UNEP/SETAC Database Registry on 25th May, 2010 in Seville, Spain. Slides from the meeting are available here.

10. Leaders:
Andreas Ciroth
GreenDeltaTC

Clemens Düpmeier
IAI

Publicly available documents

Website: Database Registry