Development of a metadatabase to support a multi-organisational, multi-disciplinary river ecosystem research and management initiative - Experiences from the Kruger National Park Rivers research programme

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This paper describes the products and processes developed by the Information Systems Development and Management Subprogramme (ISDM) of the Kruger National Park Rivers Research Programme (KNPRRP) Phase II. The goals of the KNPRRP are to: • inform researchers, system managers and stakeholders about the water quality and quantity requirements to sustain the natural environment of rivers which flow through the Kruger National Park;and  develop, test and refine methods for predicting the response of the natural environments of rivers flowing through the Kruger National Park and in Southern Africa to changing water quality and patterns of supply. A primary task in a programme of this nature is to gather and organise the metadata of interest. In the case of the multi-organisational, multi-disciplinary KNPRRP this was a task so large that it required the devotion of a separate subprogramme within the programme structure.

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