ORCHESTRA - development of an open architecture for risk management in Europe

This paper presents an overview of the ORCHESTRA project and relates ORCHESTRA to general research issues in the area of systems integration. ORCHESTRA responds to European needs to develop a standardised, general purpose and generic information infrastructure for the management of environmental and risk management information and related cross-boundary business processes. ORCHESTRA was started in September 2004 and is funded under the 6th framework program of the EU (FP6), under the priority "Improving Risk Management" of the Information Society Technologies (IST) program. The paper focuses on the major challenges for ORCHESTRA in the area of cross-boundary information exchange and service use.