EFI Policy Portal/About
EFI Policy Portal
Information Portal on Forest Policies, Institutions and Instruments
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The content of this portal is provided by the EFI regional office EFICENT-OEF based in Nancy, France. More information and contact details are available on the EFICENT-OEF website: Information Portal on Forest Policies, Institutions and Instruments. Core funding for the OEF is provided by four different donors: the French Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, the Regional Council of Lorraine, the Urban Community of Greater Nancy and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA).
The technical development of this portal is done in cooperation with the Wicri Environmental sciences and engineering project (in French), driven in cooperation with the french Sciences et génie de l'environnement (SGE) research pole from the university of Lorraine. The project team is composed of 7 active editors.
Contents
Metadata
This portal contains data about data, so-called metadata. Categorization of policy processes, instruments and institutions follows:
Technology
This portal is hosted on a thematic wiki related to the wood and forest sector hosted at the university of Lorraine. It uses MediaWiki, the website maintenance system behind wikipedia.
Network of Wikis for scientific information
This thematic wiki is part of a wider network of wikis for communities of research of innovation called "Wicri". The most prominent sites in this network are the wikis on urban soils.
Semantic extension
This site is a knowledge repository editable by registered users. It has the particularity to be fitted with an extension called Semantic Mediawiki which transforms it into a collaborative database. For more information and to request your username and password, contact User:Thierry Daunois or User:Paul Rougieux.
