Common access

to EU

information -

the CELLAR

project Audience: EuroVoc conferencePresented by: Peter SchmitzDate of presentation: 18/11/2010

Transformation programme

Target architecture

CELLAR

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Foundations:

Mission of the Publications Office:“Access to Law and Publications”

Development plan 2009-2012:Publications Office has to put in place appropriate

structures in order to optimise services provided to its customers (citizens and professionals) taking into account a more and more complex and changing environment. Its should adapt its organisation and improve efficiency to remain at the leading edge

in the domain of publishing and communication.

Implementation:

Transformation Programme:Alignment of business processes and supporting IT systems

in order to achieve the necessary flexibility to master technological change, in particular in the domain of electronic publishing.

Has been launched in 2009.

Transformation programme

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Production

Citizens/Professionals

Authors

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EUR-Lex

TEDDissemination - Specializedportals

EU Booksh

op

CORDIS

Present: silos = independent solutions

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Dissemination

Production

Citizens/Professionals

Authors

Common portalSpecialized portals

Future: harmonized architecture = common & shared solutions

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Target architecture 6

CELLARArchive

Long term preservation

Content and

Metadata

Official pub-

lications

Tendering documents

General pub-

lications

External sources

CORDIS Production

Portal

Index andSearch

Common Portal

EUR-Lex TEDEU

BookshopCORDIS

Common search service

Common indexes

Metadata production Post-productionValidation

Common Metadata Repository

(CMR)

Common Content Repository

(CCR)

MDR/RECORD

CELLAR

EUDOR-2012

EUROVOC

EUDOR

CONT-CONV

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META-CONV

Target architecture – projects & systems

EURLEX-2011

To guarantee to the citizen a better access to law and publications of the European Union;

To encourage and facilitate reuse of content and metadata by professionals and experts;

To preserve content and metadata and access to contents and metadata over time.

8CELLAR - Vision

To make available at a single place all metadata and digital content managed by the Publications Office in a harmonised and standardised way in order:

CELLAR – A service enabler 9

On-line access Provide on-line access through the Internet portals of the Publications Office.

Automated access

Provide suitable interfaces for access by automated agents.

External indexing

Enable indexing by Internet search engines.

Notification Provide configurable notification services (RSS-feeds…).

Downloading Support sporadic and regular downloading of resources (subscription). Regular downloading should be configurable.

Specific formats

Provide formats, which are not natively available in the CELLAR (LegisWrite, ONIX notices…), i.e. transformation services.

Deep linking Enable external referencing of resources and guarantee persistence of links over time.

CELLAR – Strategic formats

= essential, = important, = useful.

Format

Use case

Presen-tation

Index-

ing

Reuse Deeplinkin

g

Authen-

ticity

Long termpreser-vation

Reproduc-tion

XML XHTML XHTML

Formex

XHTML

Formex

PDF PDF/A PDF/A

PDF/A PDF/A PDF/X

TIFF TIFF TIFF TIFF TIFF

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Importance of formats according to use cases (current situation).

Access to resourcesIn general, access to CELLAR resources is not restricted.

Unique identificationCELLAR URI for any content and metadata resource.

Core metadataRestricted shared set of metadata for each resource to enable global search on the CELLAR, in particular through the future Common Portal of the Publications Office, based on Dublin Core.

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Data flows:

Dissemination layer

Data layer

Definition layer

Tendering documents

General publications

External sources (Court of

Justice…)

CORDIS

Validation

Reference

Publishing

Post-Production

Production

ArchiveLong term

preservation

Official publications

CELLAR – Functional architecture

Repository models (CCR and CMR), business rules (for uploading, archiving and dissemination), transformation rules, EuroVoc dissemination, authority tables including translations.

Reception, technical validation and storage of content and metadata.

Access to and provision of content and metadata in the requested format and/or presentation.

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Data flows:

Dissemination layer

Data layer

Definition layer

Tendering documents

General publications

External sources (Court of

Justice…)

CORDIS

Validation

Reference

Publishing

Post-Production

Production

ArchiveLong term

preservation

Official publications

METS

FRBR

METS

CELLAR – Based on standards

OAISReference

model

XML

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Data flows:

Dissemination layer

Data layer

Definition layer

Tendering documents

General publications

External sources (Court of

Justice…)

CORDIS

Validation

Reference

Publishing

Post-Production

Production

ArchiveLong term

preservation

Official publications

RDFSKOS

SPARQL endpoint

CELLAR – Semantic technology

OWL

CELLAR – Macro planning

Phase Planning

Phase 1 – full functionality Spring 2011

Phase 2 – production version Autumn 2011

= ongoing

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