Reaping the value of reusable semantic assets

ISA Programme

Semantic Interoperability Action

How ISA is promoting Semantic Interoperability in the EU

João Rodrigues Frade

ISA is undertaking a number of initiatives to promote interoperability in Europe

European Interoperability Framework

Political context

http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/

Catalogue of interoperability assets

Core Vocabularies

Pilots using Linked Data technologies

Best Practices

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Catalogue of interoperability assets

Google not good enough

There are t oo many websit es

I don’ t know what t o use

Is it t he r ight version?

Is it machine- readable?

ASSET DESCRIPTION

METADATA

SCHEMA

ADMS

1. Raise visibility of

reusable

specifications

2. Simple way to find

interoperability

assets from

different

publishers

3. Add valuable

How does it look like?

ASSET DESCRIPTION

METADATA

SCHEMA

ADMS

Library of e-Health interoperability standards?

Past Future

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Core Vocabularies

Pilots using Linked Data technologies

Core vocabularies

Simplified, reusable, extensible and model neutral data models that capture the fundamental characteristics of a data entity in a context-neutral fashion.

CORE

VOCABULARY

PUBLICSERVICE

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/43160

GR data

SE data

DE dataNL data

BE data

HU data

AT data

PL data

Pilots

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Best Practices

http://education.data.gov.uk/doc/schools/123456.csv

e.g. http://education.data.gov.uk/doc/school?id=123456

e.g. http://education.data.gov.uk/doc/school/v01/123456

e.g. http://education.data.gov.uk/ministryofeducation/id/school/123456

Follow the pattern

Re-use existing identifiers

Link multiple representations

Implement 303 redirects for

real-world objects

Use a dedicated service

Avoid stating ownership

Avoid version numbers

Avoid using auto-increment

Avoid query strings

10 rulesfor persistent

Avoid file extensions

e.g. http://{domain}/{type}/{concept}/{reference}

e.g. http://education.data.gov.uk/id/school/123456

e.g. http://data.example.org/doc/foo/bar.html

e.g. http://data.example.org/doc/foo/bar.rdf

i.e. independent of the data originator

e.g. data.gov.uk and publications.europa.eu are decoupled from

specific government department and could readily be transferred and run by someone else if necessary.

e.g. http://education.data.gov.uk/id/school1/123456

e.g. http://education.data.gov.uk/id/school1/123457

URIsExample

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Semantic

interoperability

Vassilios.PERISTERAS@ec.europa.eu

Joao.Frade@pwc.be

Programme

Manager

Team

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