2013 06-21 - semic2013 - putting the core vocabularies into practice

SEMIC 2013, Dublin, 21 May 2013

ISA ProgrammeAction 1.1 - Semantic [email protected]@pwc.be

Putting the core vocabularies into practice

Outline

1. What are the Core Vocabularies?

2. Why are they relevant to public administrations?

3. How are they used?

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Core vocabularies

Simplified, re-usable, and extensible 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/431605

Building consensus on core vocabularies

• 2 WGs with each 60+ members• 21+ EU Member States• Following a formal process and

methodology• Public review periods• Re-using existing standards

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/431606

4 core vocabularies

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CORE

VOCABULARY

PUBLICSERVICE

Fundamental characteristics of a person.

Fundamental characteristics of a legal entity, such as legal identifier, name, company type, activities.

Fundamental characteristics of a location, represented as an address, a geographic name, or a geometry.

Fundamental characteristics of a public service.

3 representation formats

RDF schema

Re-uses existing Linked Data vocabularies

ISA Open Metadata Licence v1.1IPR

Re-uses Core Components Technical Specification (CCTS).

XML schema

Conceptual modelRe-use existing concepts in CCL, INSPIRE, etc.

Maintained by W3C (Government Linked Data Working Group)

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Outline

1. What are the Core Vocabularies?

2. Why are they relevant?

3. How are they already put in practice?

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Why relevant?

1. 1. Interoperability of base registers: common vocabularies for authentic sources of Government data

2. “Basic data” a Minimal Viable Product.

3. 2. Interoperability of public services: greatest common denominator to which one can add context-specific extensions.

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• Recommendation 12. Public administrations, when working to establish European public services, should develop interfaces to authentic sources and align them at semantic and technical level.

European Interoperability Framework

http://ec.europa.eu/isa/documents/isa_annex_ii_eif_en.pdf

1. Interoperability of base registers

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Denmark: “Good basic data for everyone”

http://www.digst.dk/

1. Interoperability of base registers

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E-SENS: common building blocks for cross-border public services

• The core vocabularies as a starting point for context-specific vocabularies.

• E.g. E-CODEX re-uses the Core Person Vocabulary.

2. Interoperability for public services

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OSLO: Open Standards for Local Administrations

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2. Interoperability for public services

• Putting the core vocabularies into a local context.

• Local administrations need locally enriched data models ánd data.

Core Vocabularies

0. About the ISA Programme

1. What are the Core Vocabularies?

2. Why are they relevant for public administrations?

3. How are they already put in practice?

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Known implementations

Re-use by e-CODEX large-scale pilot on eJusticeRe-use by Open Corporates5 pilot implementations initiated by the ISA

Programme:• 25 public administrations• 14 Member States• 4 EU Institutions...

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Interconnecting Belgian address registers

Core Location Pilot: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/63242

LOGD INFRASTRUCTURE

UrBIS - Brussels Capital Region

CRAB - Flanders PICC - Wallonia Civil registerNGI – National Geographic Institute

DATA CONSUMER

sample address data in native format

Linked address data

Common Data models

RDF view

SPARQL endpoint

INS

PIR

E

lookup, disambiguate, link

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• XML and RDF views on relational data served over a Web interfaceXML view

Xquery,Xpath

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OpenCorporates: basic company data for everyone

• Machine-readable data: (URI, legal identifier, name, company type, activities)

• Links back to the base registers 19

GR- Company data of the Greek tax authorities

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• Master thesis project

• Using API of Greek tax administration

• 30K+ companies

GR- Ministry of administrative reform and electronic governance

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Plant protection products

• Companies

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Core public service vocabulary

Describe public services “only once” using a standard vocabulary, make machine-readable descriptions available to others so that they become searchable on many governmental access portals.

Core Public Service Vocabulary

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/core_public_service/description23

Flemish Intergovernmental Product and service catalogue (IPDC)

http://www.corve.be/projecten/lokaal/IPDC/

Exchange of service catalogue data between national, regional, and local governments.

REST web service that returns XML. XSLT to convert into Core Public Service.

Project manager: Katrien De Smet, CORVE (present at SEMIC 2013!)

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SOFTWARE

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CORE

VOCABULARY

PUBLICSERVICE

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