Outline of a potential environment and health metadatabase for the Netherlands*

Issue title: European Metadatabase on Environmental and Health Information Sources. Selected papers from a WHO/EURO Consultation

Guest editors: A.W. Elias

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Bakkes, J.A.

Affiliations: National Reference Centre for Environmental Information, National Institute for Public Health and Environmental Protection, P.O. Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, the Netherlands

Note: [*] The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the policies of the National Institute for Public Health and Environmental Protection or the views of other staff members of the Institute.

Abstract: The National Reference Centre for Environmental Information in the Netherlands could serve as a model for the construction of a country contribution to an environment and health metadatabase. In the light of this, the outline and rationale of the present system are reviewed and the necessary additional components are identified and briefly described. A few remarks are added showing the way a national focal point would relate to a European network.

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-1990-10404

Journal: Information Services & Use, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 223-228, 1990