Forestknowledge.net
Waldwissen.net is an international, multilingual information and communication platform in the areas of forest and forestry. Editors are the Logging Testing and Research Institute of Baden -Württemberg ( FVA), the Bavarian State Institute of Forestry (LWF ), the Austrian Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW ) and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL ).
On the website are the institutes involved their latest research results available and offer contacts to experts. The target groups are decision-makers in forestry practice, and the interested public. The interactive platform has been established in central Europe as an online source of information on the topics of forest and forestry. In September 2013, 3,000 articles were available.
Organization
In addition to the four -issuing research institutes from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the following partner institutions participate in waldwissen.net: the state Sachsenforst (SBS ), the country setting Forest and Wood North Rhine -Westphalia ( WUH), the country's center of excellence forest Eberswalde (LFE ) and the Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA ) in Nancy.
Both publishers partner finance each independent editors from its own resources, which inserts into the platform continuously prepared a new, in-depth and current knowledge and compact as this posts. The current eight editors are also working together with other organizations, for example with the Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, the Swiss Accident Insurance Fund, the Swiss Ornithological Institute, the University of Natural Resources or the College of Forestry of Rottenburg.
History
In order to drive existing expertise to a wider base, the WSL Birmensdorf launched the idea of practical knowledge of the forest and environmental research in an easily accessible place for all provide. In the summer of 2003, the prototype went online waldwissen.ch.
The experience of waldwissen.ch were very positive. At the same time the four-day in the Forest Research Research Institutes FVA Freiburg, LWF Freising, BFW Vienna and WSL Birmensdorf intensified their efforts to develop a common information system of forestry specialists with internationally compiled content. This project was part of the KnowForAlp initiative, which included a total of 19 institutions from seven countries. The result was waldwissen.net, which went online on 16 February 2005.
Over time, not only increased the number of available posts, the platform has been developed in parallel to technical. In 2007, with the waldwissen.net worth 50,000 euro prize for innovation for the European Forestry and Forest Products, the Schweighofer Prize,. The jury was impressed especially the internationalism, multilingualism and sound posts by waldwissen.net. The prize money was used for the further development of the website.
Since February 21, 2011 appears waldwissen.net revised and with a new appearance. An important innovation is the " My Waldwissen " where registered users can use a referral service, a filing system for articles or comments.