Proceedings of the workshop: Information sharing: Methods and Applications

Web-based information systems play an important role in today’s practice of data-analysis and reporting in the field of environmental protection. While these systems solved some technical problems concerning the integration and visualization of information they show some problems even harder to handle. These problems are concerned with content and organization of the information within the information system and arise as a re sult of de-centralized authoring and provision of information. We present an AI approach for analyzing and structuring webbased information systems in order to check validity and consistency of information and to provide a content driven navigation structure. We show the usefulness of the approach by applying it to an existing environment information system that we analyze and structure according to different thematic categories. We also discuss further potentials of knowledge-based approaches to the problem of housekeeping in web-based information systems.