About us
What is waldwissen.net?
- waldwissen.net is an information and communication platform.
- waldwissen.net is a joint project on the four research institutions FVA BW, BFW, LWF and WSL (publisher) as well as their partner institutions LMV, SBS, WUH, LFE, FFK, NW-FVA and LMV.
- waldwissen.net is a website run by forestry experts for forestry experts. We provide guaranteed, up-to-date quality information on forests, man and forest management.
- waldwissen.net provides compact, edited information on a wide range of forestry topics in understandable forest terminology
- waldwissen.net links research institutions, forest administrations, forest owner associations and other Non-Governmental Organisations to each other and provides access to experts.
The editorial staff of the respective research institutes are responsible for the text content in waldwissen.net. Each editorial office compiles expert information, edits it and then presents it on the web-portal.
We are a focal contact point for investigative forestry practitioners and all others interested in the forest and so we are counting on your suggestions and comments. Get in touch with us!
Publisher
Forest Research Institute of Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg, Germany (FVA BW)
Editorial office FVA BW
Bavarian Forest Institute, Freising, Germany
(LWF)
Editorial office LWF
Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape, Vienna, Austria (BFW)
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland (WSL)
Partner
How did waldwissen.net come about?
Waldwissen.net developed out of the following idea: The research sector provides a large amount of knowledge, which can only be partly incorporated into the day to day processes of improving professional competence or decision making. Therefore, the Federal Research Institute (WSL) had the idea of making relevant practical knowledge available for everyone in an easily accessible forum. In the summer of 2003 the prototype waldwissen.ch went on line.
The experience gained from waldwissen.ch was very positive. At the same time the four Research Institutes involved in forest research FVA, LWF, BFW, WSL intensified their efforts to develop a joint forest information system with internationally compiled contents. From this emerged waldwissen.net which, although based on waldwissen.ch, was technologically more demanding, textually more complex and also multilingual. Waldwissen.net went online on 16th February 2005 with around 600 articles.
How did waldwissen.net develop further?
The number of contributions to forest knowledge and the supply of forestry expertise were constantly growing as time went by. Parallel to this development waldwissen.net was being developed further: a function permitting ratings and comments on contributions was a valuable addition to the information platform as of 2007.
In 2011, waldwissen.net was completely redesigned and given a new, modern look. An important new feature is the ability to customize waldwissen.net to your own needs. There are also improved functions for finding the content you are looking for more quickly.
By May 2017 a total of 3370 contributions (of which 250 in English) and dossiers with all kinds of information (only in German) were available on the Internet. Up to May 2017 articles from waldwissen.net were rated more than 220.000 times by Internet users.
Mobile devices have steadily increased their user share to around 50% since 2010. For this reason, a modern and responsive design was developed for waldwissen.net with the 2020/21 relaunch, thus increasing mobile user-friendliness in particular. The website is now available as a progressive web app (PWA). The differentiated search, sorting and filter function offers all users maximum research convenience.
Best of Swiss Web Avard 2021
Waldwissen.net - Bronze Award Winner at the
Best of Swiss Web www.bestofswissweb.swiss
Waldwissen.net wins bronze medal in the category Public affairs at the Best of Swiss Web Avard 2021! A nice recognition for a challenging relaunch: The task was to migrate around 3,000 scientific articles and half a million data sets consisting of ratings, comments and user data with favourites lists from an outdated content management system into a state-of-the-art TYPO3 application. zdrei.com developed the new platform and designed the data migration in an automated process.
Best of Swiss Web awards outstanding work that brings together ambitious clients and agencies and actively shares best practices gained.