Protecting and preserving cultural heritage (CH) in view of global climate change is the main objective of the KERES project. For managing climate impact with proper measurements, including prevention and responsive actions, an ontology has been devised in the course of this project in close cooperation with relevant stakeholders of selected CH assets that serve us as case studies. In particular, the ontology supports modeling specific CH assets with respect to the challenges of climate change. It turns out the main challenge is to subsume the diversity of models and processes specific to individual assets on a proper level of abstraction. Based on the ontology, we succeeded in creating software that assists stakeholders in managing their CH challenges, including an interactive app for suggesting preventative measurements and a web application for creating route cards that are used by emergency service professionals in the case of rescuing cultural assets. We are confident that our methodology of CH assets abstraction and modeling will be applicable to a broader range of CH assets.

Civil protection authorities in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, have long relied on a fragmented landscape of databases and spreadsheets to manage their vehicle and equipment inventories. This heterogeneous data environment prevents cross-organizational analysis, impedes situational awareness during crises, and makes compliance reporting against the state's administrative regulation on disaster control services a labor-intensive manual process. Despite the operational significance of this challenge, no German state currently operates a centralized, IT-supported system for civil protection vehicle management. We present ZIFA (Zentrales Informationssystem für Fahrzeuge und Ausstattungen des Katastrophenschutzes), a GIS-enabled web application developed as a new module within the established Elektronische Lagedarstellung für den Bevölkerungsschutz (ELD-BS) ecosystem. ZIFA provides unified inventory management, map-based visualization, lifecycle management, cost tracking, and automated target/actual comparison across all administrative levels. The system was developed through a participatory co-design process involving the Ministry of the Interior, Digitalisation and Local Government, all four Regional Councils, and selected district authorities and relief organizations. We describe ZIFA's architecture using the five viewpoints of the Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) framework and contextualize its functionality through two analytical lenses: the crisis management cycle (prevention, preparedness, response, recovery) and the administrative hierarchy (state, regional, district, local). Implementation is complete and the system is currently undergoing its second testing phase, fully integrated within the ELD-BS environment. We discuss lessons learned from the participatory design process, current limitations, and the transferability of key design elements to other German states and international contexts.