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The project partner at the Administration of the Wadden Sea National Park of Lower 
Saxony NLPV and at the Lower Saxony Water Management, Coastal Defence and Nature 
Conservation Agency NLWKN has actively participated in die metadata working group 
of die GDI-DE (GeodätenInfrastruktur Deutschland 2008). Anodier work 
package concerning a coastal gazetteer carried on die longstanding collaboration between 
NOKIS with die Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy BKG. There is an 
expression of interest by the government in a detailed gazetteer for die entire German 
coastal zone, which is to be established as part of die MDI-DE in cooperation witii the 
Schleswig-Holstein State Agency for Coastal Defence, National Park and Marine Conser 
vation LKN in Tönning. Important steps have been taken to merge preexisting wordlists 
from BAW and KFKI into a coastal tiiesaurus by a joint effort of BAW and die Chair of 
Geodesy and Geoinformatics at die LTniversity of Rostock. 
The German Coastal Engineering Research Council KFKI has a working group on 
surveying coastal waters at regular intervals in order to provide up to date batiiymetry 
data for numerical modelling purposes. Since 1973, this group organizes die division of 
work between the Federal and State authorities in die coastal zone to produce area-wide 
data sets. A Web based planning tool has been developed in cooperation with the Water 
ways and Shipping Directorate Nordi WSD-N in Kiel, which visualizes past, present and 
planned surveying campaigns. As it is based on the coastal zone metadata profile (see 
section 3.1.1) and uses OGC Web services it is integrated in the MDI-DE network. 
2.1.2 Marine environmental protection 
The lead partner Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency BSH in Hamburg has car 
ried out research and development work for marine environment protection in coopera 
tion witii project partners in the State Agency for agriculture, environment and rural areas 
of the State of Schleswig-Holstein LLLIR in Flintbek and the State Agency of Environ 
ment, Nature conservation and Geology in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania LLING 
in Güstrow. Earlier cooperations of BSH, LLLIR and LLING concerning die marine 
environment database MLIDAB and the ELI Water Framework Directive WFD led to 
developments of data interfaces tiiat were used for die exchange of spatial data. These 
results were further developed in the MDI-DE project. 
The Federal Institute of Hydrology BfG with its information portal WasserBLIcK was 
a major project partner. The Federal Environmental Agency LIBA in Dessau was also 
involved witii its responsibility for MLIDAB. During the project runtime contacts for 
possible cooperation were made witii die Institute for Coastal Research at die Helmholtz - 
Zentrum Geesthacht HZG, die Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel LIniversity 
IFM-GEOMAR, die Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research IOW Warnemünde, 
the Centre for Geoinformation at Christian Albrechts LIniversity of Kiel ZfG, and the 
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, AWI in 
Bremerhaven. 
BSH has been working with BAW at merging GDI-BSH and NOKIS. The technical 
integration of die existing systems was realized first, followed by building the common 
infrastructure for maps, map tools and charts tiiat are now used by all project partners. 
The existing services of GDI-BSH and NOKIS were taken into account.