GIMA - RIVM
- 1. The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) Niels van Beek Nikki Hulskes Richard Ritsema Maarja Mahlapuu
- 2. Content • About RIVM • Cooperation • Geowares ▫ Orgware ▫ People-ware ▫ Software&Hardware ▫ Dataware • SDI • Challenges
- 3. About RIVM • From 1909 • Activities: Research, consultancy and project management or execution • Aim: To save lives! • Located in Bilthoven, The Netherlands
- 4. RIVM tasks and responsibilities • Policy support • National coordination • Prevention and intervention programmes • Provision of information to professionals and the general public • Knowledge development and research • Support for Inspectorates and other regulatory authorities • Crisis management and response
- 5. Cooperation
- 6. Orgware •4 divisions •30 separate units •Laboratories •Teams •Centres •Greek tempel
- 7. People-ware • 1.621 employees (2012) • 49% are female • The staff includes ▫ ~20 professor ▫ ~20 experts
- 8. Software&Hardware • External ▫ Flamingoviewer for geoportal ▫ If ArcGis was used in 2004, then also in 2014? • Internal ▫ PROAST (for the statistical analysis of dose- response data) • Not a lot information was found
- 9. Dataware • Holds the national monitoring networks for ▫ Soil ▫ Groundwater ▫ Air quality ▫ Some health data Dutch Food Composition Database (NEVO) • Uses a lot of different types of external data
- 10. Elaboration of data provision for new ‘environment law’ • Report from December 2013 • Expert (Piet van Zoonen) from RIVM: ▫ collected data doesn’t always have a form which is satisfying for its users ▫ Data quality problems ▫ Connection between different databases is suggested
- 11. SDI • Current SDI-status is unknown • BUT there are some hints ▫ Standards and Policies – INSPIRE? ▫ Access Network – for external users -> geoportal • With external partners: ▫ For land use modelling SDI is established between RIVM, Free Univ. Amsterdam, the Spatial Planning Bureau, and Univ. Utrecht
- 12. Challenges • Wide variety of different research topics • Is there a need? Motivation? • No information about workflow, SDI • Having both, national and international level complicates ▫ Difficult to meet user requirements • Homepage doesn’t give a lot of information • It’s more difficult to implement SDI in public sector? More bureaucracy ?
- 13. Thank you!
Editor's Notes
- #10: provision of data for the newenvironmental law