Objective: Current public and commercial services present, as a rule, "raw" data on environmental conditions such as air, water and snow quality, the water level, and pollen count. But raw environmental data are not self-explanatory. In order to be informative, they require an interpretation and a tailoring to the health, interest and knowledge profiles of the citizens.

In this context the MARQUIS project is designed to address the above problem by providing:
a) Cross-border information services that provide user-tailored analysis, interpretation, and multilingual communication of meteorological and air quality information for selected regions in the EU;
b) A detailed commercialisation model of these services for both private and public institutions using the Internet, mobile phone services, and the printed media as distribution channels.

The central information processing features of of MARQUIS' service include:
- Fine-grained local assessment of air pollutant emission and meteorological conditions using state of the art models;
- Analysis of the air quality data with respect to their distribution over time or space and their correlation with meteorological conditions;
- Interpretation of the environmental data with respect to their relevance to legal regulations, specific health and interest profiles and/or specific cultural backgrounds, a specific region, health-care, etc.

The central information providing features of MARQUIS' service include:
- "On the fly" generation of textual information using state of the art Computational Linguistics techniques in Catalan,
English, Finnish, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish - with region and culture-specific priorities being taken into account;
- Generation of graphics and tables;
- Maintenance of regional profiles with geographical and cultural characteristics as well as of individual customer login profiles concerning the interests, personal characteristics, expertise in the domain, and the information already provided by the service;
- Information delivery on demand and event-driven.

Start Date: 2005-01-01

End Date: 2006-12-31

Duration: 24 months

Project Status	Completed
Project Funding	1.5 million euro
Programme Type	IS (Information Society)
Programme Acronym	ECONTENT
Subprogramme Area	AL1 Action Line 1: Improving access to and expanding the use of public sector information
Project Reference	11258
Contract Type	DEM ... Demonstration contracts (Demonstration contracts)
Prime Contractor
Organisation:	Fundació Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Address:	Plaça de la Mercè, 10 - 12
	08002
	Barcelona
	SPAIN

Other Contractors
Organisation Name:	Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Address:	Monte de Caparica
	Caparica
	PORTUGAL
	2829-516
Organisation Name:	Ydreams
Address:	Madan Parque - Quinta da Torre
	Caparica
	PORTUGAL
	2829-516
Organisation Name:	Ingenieurbüro Lohmeyer GmbH & Co KG
Address:	An der Roßweid, 3
	Karlsruhe
	GERMANY
	76229
Organisation Name:	Zentrum für Umwelt-messungen Umwelterhebungen und Gerätesicherheit (UMEG) Baden-Württemberg
Address:	Großoberfeld, 3
	Karlsruhe
	GERMANY
	76135
Organisation Name:	Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya
Address:	C/Berlín núm., 38-48 4a
	Barcelona V
	SPAIN
	08029
Organisation Name:	TVC Netmèdia
Address:	Frederic Mompou, 5 - 6/3
	Sant Just Desvern - Barcelona
	SPAIN
	08960
Organisation Name:	INSTITUTE FOR ECOLOGY OF INDUSTRIAL AREAS
Address:	UL. KOSSUTHA 6
	KATOWICE
	POLAND
	40844
Organisation Name:	FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE
Address:	Vuorikatu 24
	HELSINKI
	FINLAND
	00101
Organisation Name:	Universität Stuttgart
	Stuttgart
	GERMANY
	70049

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