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For fostering a single European Research Area in the field of ICT for environmental sustainability, the FP7 project ICT-ENSURE (ICT Environmental Sustainability Research) was implemented. Within the scope of ICT-ENSURE, two web-based information systems with free online access have been developed: A Research Programmes Information System and a Literature Information System. The Research Programmes Information System serves as an information source on national research programmes and projects in the European Union in the field of ICT for environmental sustainability. The Literature Information System provides scientific literature on this field to the scientific community and other interested people. Both systems offer various search and navigation facilities to the end users. The information systems are fully integrated and based entirely on open source / free software. In the chapter, the goal, structure, contents, and functionality of the information systems are described and the maintenance and quality assurance of the contents are addressed. Besides presenting the information systems the chapter also aims at promoting the participation of the ITEE community in the contents of these systems in order to proceed further towards a single European research area in the field of ICT for environmental sustainability.
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The project results have been developed by the ICT-ENSURE project (European ICT Environmental Sustainability Research, www.ict-ensure.eu). ICT-ENSURE is financed under the grant agreement number 224017 of the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme, Theme 3, Information and Communication Technologies. The authors thank Dr. Heinrich Schneider (nuvelo) for the coordination of the investigations for national research programmes and projects. In addition, the authors thank Martin Schreiber (Leuphana University of Lüneburg) for the development of a prototype version of the Literature Information System.
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Geiger, W., Lutz, R., Schmitt, C. (2011). Web-based Information Systems on ICT for Environmental Sustainability Research in Europe. In: Golinska, P., Fertsch, M., Marx-Gómez, J. (eds) Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering. Environmental Science and Engineering(), vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19536-5_18
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