Introduction to the advanced search functionality of

Joinup

March 2014 PwC EU Services

Learning objectives

By the end of this module, you will have an understanding of:

How to find the content that you need on Joinup through the advanced search functionality

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/

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“Joinup supports e-Government professionals to find, share, re-use, develop and implement interoperability solutions, such as specifications and software.

Outline

1. What is Joinup?

• Why using the advanced search? • Search options • Search for content • Search for users • Search for issues

2. The advanced search on Joinup

3. Conclusion

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• A multi-purpose platform:

o Interoperability observatory

o Communities of interest around interoperability

o Collaborative work environment

o Catalogue of interoperability solutions

• Aims to facilitate the sharing and re-use of interoperability

solutions made for public administrations and best practices.

• Involves interoperability professionals from all over Europe,

and even outside of Europe.

• Funded by the ISA Programme.

What is Joinup?

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What is Joinup?

Find more than 5000 highly-reusable interoperability solutions on Joinup.

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Why using the advanced search?

• The advanced search helps you navigate through content available on Joinup by selecting specific search filters.

You will be more efficient in finding what you need.

You can find content, but also users and issues.

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Where to find the advanced search?

The advanced search bar is available at any time in the upper right corner of the Joinup pages. • You can search using a

keyword Or • You can leave the bar blank In both options you are redirected to the advanced search page.

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Search for content • After arriving on the advanced

search page, you first need to filter on the type of content.

• Depending on the content type you select, different filters are available on the left-hand side of the page.

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Version

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File format

#2 Document type & Asset type

#6 Repository of

Origin

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Publisher & Publisher type

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Level of Inter-operability

#11 Representation techniques

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Status

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Programming language

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Operating system

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Keywords

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Theme

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Licence & Licencing type

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Geograpic coverage

Licensing site

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Creation Date

You can search for the following search filters

After filtering on content, you can select options from a wide range of search filters on the left-hand side of the page.

Filtering options

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Filtering options

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For more info about ADMS-AP: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/svn/adms/train

ings/Introduction_to_ADMS-AP.pptx

The filtering options are based on the structure of the solutions’ metadata descriptions on Joinup. Those metadata descriptions are compliant with the Asset Description Metadata Schema Application Profile (ADMS-AP).

Search options Keywords Enter a key word and click the ‘Search’ button.

In the search box you can type 1 or more keywords.

Sort by You can sort the results by relevancy, popularity, date, title and author.

Search results The results contain a title and a short introduction paragraph. Further, the type, the author and the publishing date are given.

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Search for content

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As an example, let’s search for ‘ADMS-AP’ in order to find the interoperability solution ADMS-AP.

Search for content

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Thanks to the filter “Interoperability Solution”, it is easy to find what we need.

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Search for users To search for users, first go to the ‘Users’ tap’. Then type a user name in the search box. Let’s use ‘stijn’ in this example. We retrieve 5 search results with the name ‘stijn’. By clicking on the username you are redirected to the user profile page.

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Search for issues To search for issues you first click the ‘Issues’ tab. This will redirect you to the issues advanced search page. This page looks different than the other search pages because there are more search criteria.

By clicking on the title you are redirected to the issue page, where you can find more information and download the issue.

As an example, let’s search for ‘asset description’ submitted by user ‘stijngoedertier’ with status ‘Active’ and priority ‘Normal’. We retrieve 2 search results.

Conclusion

The advanced search helps you search for:

All types of content via different filtering options;

All registered users of Joinup;

All issues that are registered on Joinup;

in an intuitive, efficient and easy way.

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Related learning resources

• Introduction to ADMS-AP

• How to import and export ADMS-AP conform metadata of interoperability solutions on Joinup

• Introduction to the Open Refine RDF tool

• Introduction to metadata cleansing using SPARQL

• Using Joinup as catalogue for interoperability solutions

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Disclaimers

1. The views expressed in this presentation are purely those of the authors and may not, in any circumstances, be interpreted as stating an official position of the European Commission. The European Commission does not guarantee the accuracy of the information included in this presentation, nor does it accept any responsibility for any use thereof. Reference herein to any specific products, specifications, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favouring by the European Commission. All care has been taken by the author to ensure that s/he has obtained, where necessary, permission to use any parts of manuscripts including illustrations, maps, and graphs, on which intellectual property rights already exist from the titular holder(s) of such rights or from her/his or their legal representative.

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