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Fig. 5: Menu for attribute information of MERAKA 
5.0 PERSPECTIVES 
At the beginning MERAKA is mainly a tool for the GIS administration unit to send quickly 
layers to coworkers with a documentation of the used data. On the long run it is intended that 
for all mapmakers the documentation is part of the evaluation itself. To ensure that all scientists 
can benefit from the documentation now the generation of web pages for the retrieval has star 
ted. It is expected that such a retrieval system leads to closer contact between the scientists 
working in the FAM project. 
6.0 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 
The scientific activities of the Research Network „Forschungsverbund Agrarökosysteme Mün 
chen” (FAM) are financially supported by the Federal Ministry of Education. Science, Re 
search and Technology (BMBF 0339370). Rent and operating expenses of the experimental 
fam „Klostergur Scheyern“ are paid by the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, 
Science and Art.