Knowledge Management
There are numerous sources of information about mining and its consequences: We are tapping these to develop new findings.
Our Knowledge Management project is concerned with the collection, sorting and evaluation of all information sources relevant to the field of post-mining. Current activities here include the compilation of an online specialist post-mining database. The aim is that anyone with an interest will, in future, be able to use keywords to browse this diverse range of literature and media.
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In 2018, we modified “FAUST", a database and retrieval system, to meet the requirements of the FZN. We have also successfully pushed forward with the development of our “Post-mining” thesaurus, alongside the establishment and expansion of the internal archive, and we have digitalised numerous items of media – ranging from old mining glossaries to the historical mine drawings. In this way, we are attempting to bundle post-mining know-how in one place, and make it available for future generations.
Another important component comes in the form of a cooperative project that allows the FZN to use the “Digital Service Files” of the RAG AG corporation. This is a geo-information tool that supports meta-searches of geo-spatial and time-related data and documents within a range of data sources.
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