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SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY FOR PUBLIC SERVICES:
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION ISA2 PROGRAMME
Dr. Vassilios Peristeras: [email protected] Commission, DG Informatics, ISA² Programme
Intro: Digital Single Market - ISA2 – EIF
Data (aka Semantic) Standards
Semantic Standards in ISA2
The ISA2 Programme
Duration: 2016 – 2020 Budget: 130ME
Digital Single Market
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Adoption of a Priority ICT Standards Plan and extending the
European Interoperability Framework for public services
The Interoperability Layers
From the revised European Interoperability Framework, draft version
EIF Information Interoperability
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Recommendation 44. Public administrations should perceive data and information as a public asset which should be appropriately generated/collected, managed, shared, protected and preserved.
Recommendation 45. Public administrations should put in place an information management strategy at the higher possible level to avoid fragmentation and duplication. Metadata, master data and reference data management should be prioritised.
Recommendation 43.Publish open data in machine-readable, non-proprietary formats. Ensure that open data are accompanied by high quality, machine-readable meta-data in non-proprietary formats, including a description of their content, the way data are collected and its level of quality and the licence terms under which it is made available. The use of common vocabularies for expressing metadata is recommended.
Intro: Digital Single Market - ISA2 – EIF
Data (aka Semantic) Standards
Semantic Standards in ISA2
How do we achieve technical interoperability?
Semantic Standards
data standards
Semantic Standards
We need universal data standards in a similar way
we need (and use) universal technology standards
Semantic Standards
Data (aka semantic) standards: Social agreements on how we describe the world
How to describe entities
Lists of values
Semantic Standards
Data standards suffer from domain and country-based fragmentation
Health
Taxation
Civil statusSecurity
Procurement
Labor market
EducationTransportation
Justice
JapanGermanyUSA
Denmark
Semantic Standards
Moving from…• Close-world systems design
o I know all my clients and their information requirements
- Island IT design
towards…• Open-world, data-driven systems
designo I don’t know who and how in the future will
use my data- Design based on data standards
Data Islands
Data Interoperability
Semantic Standards
Intro: Digital Single Market - ISA2 – EIF
Data (aka Semantic) Standards
Semantic Standards in ISA
ADMS & Catalogue of semantic standards
Making visible existing standards
Semantic standards in ISA2
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How could we promote the reuse of existing data (semantic) standards at the European level?
… by agreeing on a common language (template) to describe semantic standards
… creating a yellow page infrastructure with standards descriptions and links to the actual
standards
Semantic standards in ISA2
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Participant ProfilesWho is already sharing?
4 2 partner organisations
11 Member States
8 European Institutions
4 standardisation organisations
8 other stakeholders
= more than 2300 interoperability solutions
9 Federated Forges
42 partner organisations
+ many individual contributors= more than 2000 interoperability solutions
15 Member States
8 European Institutions
4 standardisation organisations
8 other stakeholders
9 Federated Forges
Semantic standards in ISA2
Core Vocabularies
ADMS & Catalogue of semantic standards
Making visible existing standards
Establishing agreements on basic semantics
Semantic standards in ISA2
What has been discovered over the years is that there are a number of (information) structures that are universal and applicable to all kinds of
organizations, both private and public. There are four fundamental categories: People and Organizations, Geography, Physical Resources and Activities and
Events.
David Hay, Describing the World: Data Patterns
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Semantic standards in ISA2
Agreeing on conceptual models of core data entities The ISA Core Vocabularies
COREVOCABULARY
PUBLICSERVICE
[1] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/core_vocabularies/description
The Core Vocabularies are simplified, re-usable and extensible data models that capture the fundamental characteristics of a data entity in a context-neutral and syntax-neutral fashion [1]“ “
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REGISTERED
VOCABULARYORGANIZATION
Semantic standards in ISA2
The ISA Core Vocabularies
The Core Vocabularies are simplified, re-usable and extensible data models that capture the fundamental characteristics of a data entity in a context-neutral and syntax-neutral fashion [1]“ “
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Semantic standards in ISA2
Core Vocabularies
ADMS & Catalogue of semantic standards
Making visible existing standards
Establishing agreements on basic semantics
Improving interoperability of open data
DCAT-AP
Semantic standards in ISA2
The DCAT Application profile (DCAT-AP) is a common template to describe public sector datasets and data catalogs
APPLICATIONPROFILE FOR EUROPEAN DATA PORTALS
DCAT
• DCAT-AP v1.1 published in October 2015• GEO/DCAT-AP published in December 2015• STAT/DCAT-AP is under development, expected Q4 2016
Semantic standards in ISA2
Implementation of DCAT-APExamples of European/National data portals provide metadata export:• European Data Portal (https://www.europeandataportal.eu/)
• The Dutch Open Data Portal (https://data.overheid.nl)
• The Brussels Open Data Portal (http://opendata.brussels.be)
• The Flemish Open Data Portal (http://opendataforum.info)
• Swedish national data portal (http://oppnadata.se/)
• Norwegian Open Data Portal (http://spec.dataportals.org/)
• The Spanish Open Data Portal (http://www.datos.gob.es)
• ...
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Semantic standards in ISA2
Core Vocabularies
ADMS & Catalogue of semantic standards
Making visible existing standards
Establishing agreements on basic semantics
Improving interoperability of open data
Raising awareness on semantic interoperability and metadata management
DCAT-AP
Communities Studies Visits
Semantic standards in ISA2
Join the SEMIC group on LinkedIn
Follow @SEMICeu on Twitter
Join the SEMIC community on Joinup
Get involvedVisit our initiativesADMS.SW
COREVOCABULARY
PUBLICSERVICE
REGISTERED
VOCABULARYORGANIZATION
SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY FOR PUBLIC SERVICES:
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION ISA2 PROGRAMME
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