About the search function on the portal umwelt.info

About the search function on the portal umwelt.info

How do you find the best results for your search query? We explain our search filters and functions as well as the detailed view on the search results.

The umwelt.info search engine

The search engine is the main function of the portal. It references data and information in the field of environmental protection and nature conservation. The portals’ catalogue contains a wide range of information, such as measurement data, press releases, web pages and maps. For each content, the catalogue stores various structured information (so-called metadata), which describes the respective content in more detail. This metadata includes information such as title, description, location, time period, licence type, original source and associated keywords and will be accessed by the search engine.

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About the metadata export

About the metadata export

TODO: Highlight Box For experts: This article describes the offered interfaces for exporting umwelt.info metadata. The aim is to provide reusable metadata.

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Click here for the interface overview [API documentation]

umwelt.info offers the following interfaces:

In addition to the search for environmental and nature conservation information through our website, our application programming interface (API) is a method to directly retrieve the metadata of the datasets. Besides the export based on our internal metadata scheme, various interfaces will be made available in accordance with established standards. Network partners from civil society, science and administration were asked in September 2024 which standards they prefer as users of the portal, as there are currently various standards for transferring metadata. Users primarily preferred the standards CKAN, DCAT-AP (German), schema.org, CSW or Dublin Core. Accessing our dataset in CKAN metadata format is now possible. Additional exports via schema.org and others will follow.