New screenshot tutorial for the DIAMONT database. Alps- wide data, free to use

Finding data on sustainable development in the Alps can be difficult. Let alone data that is easy to find and free to use. The DIAMONT database offers Alpine data, and a newly released screenshot tutorial helps you to find your way through it.

The DIAMONT database contains indicators of Alpine development, as well as the calculated values of these indicators of 6 alpine countries. It also includes examples of land management instruments. All this data can be used to compare communities or regions across the Alps. The DIAMONT database is useful for both practitioners and scientists working on regional development in the Alps.

The screenshot tutorial shows in 3 minutes how the database works and where you can find the different types of data. The database itself can be found at www.diamont-database.eu. The tutorial is a product of the mountain.TRIP project on transforming research into practice and is available at http://www.mountaintrip.eu/products/diamont-sst.html

For further information please do not hesitate to contact:

Mountain.TRIP product development
Liesbeth Deddens
+41 (0)31 631 51 41
deddens@giub.unibe.ch

The DIAMONT database is a unique database with Alp-wide data. Since this database is not know sufficiently and not self explanatory mountain.TRIP thought of ways to make it known and to guide the user through it. Many research projects produce valuable tools or databases but do then not have the capacity to make them known or to make them user-friendly. With the tutorial mountain.TRIP shows how complex tools can be explained to the users - who have been made aware of their existence by a good PR campaign.

Practitioners working on regional development in European mountain regions constitute the target group of this information strategy: regional development agencies and departments of public authorities, non-governmental organizations and research institutes.

We have chosen the form of a screenshot movie, as this form is commonly used for commercial products, e.g. for archiving or processing photos, or in layout programmes. Screenshot movies are quick and cheap to produce, so we can react to feedback or changed circumstance quickly and always produce up to date versions.

External Links:

http://www.diamont-database.eu

http://www.mountaintrip.eu/products/diamont-sst.html

Work regions:

Europe