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STANDAT

Experience from developing and implementing a standardised format for exchange of environmental data in Denmark

This report is part of a package of projects launched by the Danish Ministry of Environment and Energy for the support of the European Environment Agency (EEA). The scope of the report has been defined in a cooperation between the EEA and the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (Danish EPA). The project was initiated in August 1995 and completed in December 1995 / January 1996.

Index

1. Preface: objectives, structure and scope of report

2. Background and history

3. Code lists

4. The file format

5. Computer based support programmes

6. Organisation

7. Defining, creating and transferring a STANDAT file

8. Experience of the use of the STANDAT system

9. Similar interchange formats

10. Ideas for further development of an interchange format

11. Scenarios for data transfer