A NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR
ENVIRONMENTAL DATA
MANAGEMENT
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Vision
Well managed environmental
data is of significant benefit
and makes a difference for the
environment
Environmental data should be
- easily accessible
- easy to use
- effectively managed
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Strategic guidelines
Make it well
known
Secure
future use
Make it easy
to find
Support
collaborative
processing
Use open
and free
standards
The strategy is designed to help solve
problems around availability and use of
environmental data and information
Make it
accessible in
forms
requested
Ensure that
it is well
described
Manage it
well
Encourage
use – avoid
hindrances
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Make it
quickly
available
Recommendations (28)
1. Make environmental data well known
2. Make environmental data easy to find
3. Make environmental data directly accessible in forms requested
Recommendations guideline 2:
4. Ensure that environmental data are well described and easy to understand
• Make datadata
and available
digital services
as well
as their
5. Make environmental
as quickly
as possible
descriptions data
(metadata)
searchable
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6. Provide environmental
and digital
servicesonfree
charge
and with
conventional
search
engines and directories with
conditions through
that encourage
use and
re-use
descriptions of the data and services as well as through
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there is a clear
management
structure for all environmental
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6. Use established
of the standards
organization's data
7. Make environmental data easy to use for joint/collaborative processing
8. Maintain environmental data for future reuse
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Letter of intent
Many key players have signed
37 organizations by March 2017
States that the strategy will
guide the organizations
management of environmental
data
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County administrative boards (19 out of 21)
Geological Survey of Sweden
Medical Products Agency
Swedish Chemicals Agency
Swedish Consumer Agency
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Swedish Forest Agency
Swedish Geotechnical Institute
Swedish Institute for Marine Environment
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Statistics Sweden
Swedish National Heritage Board
Swedish Polar Research Secretariat
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
The Marine and Water Authority
The swedish mapping, cadastral and land
registration authority
• The Swedish National Space Board
• The Swedish Research Council Formas
• University of Gothenburg
Want to read more about the strategy for
environmental data management?
On the web:
Link to the official webpage for
the strategy
Page is in swedish but there is an
english version of the strategy
available on the page
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