This collection provides information on CMISA, a common data model for exchanging data on innovation between various European and national websites.
CollaborationeGovernment+2 topics
Last update: 22/12/2021
First GovTech Workshop - Main Takeways
On 16 December 2021, the European Commission organised a first GovTech* workshop. This theme together with the acceleration due to the pandemic situation which forced governments to be able able to innovate rapidly but also the need for digital strategic autonomy have supported to idea in many countries to support the GovTech ecosystem. *Among the many definitions, we consider that GovTech corresponds to when the public sector engages with start-ups and SMEs, for the provision of tech-based products and services in order to innovate and improve public services. In her introduction…
Business and competitionGeospatial+7 topics
Last update: 11/11/2021
Survey on Web Accessibility Directive
The European Commission is currently reviewing the application of the Web Accessibility Directive, collecting evidence from individuals and various stakeholders involved in web accessibility. The general public consultation on the review closed on 25 October. These targeted surveys seek further insights. Therefore, we would be grateful if you could reply to these surveys on web accessibility in the EU. The surveys are confidential and will support the review, whose findings will be published in June 2022. Please respond to the most appropriate survey(s) for your profile (you can respond to…
Business and competitionICT+6 topics
Last update: 27/07/2021
How far is the natural/agricultural production resilient?
In the framework of Science Direct, SoftwareX is the ELSEVIER publication that aims to acknowledge the impact of software on today's research practice, and on new scientific discoveries in almost all research domains. Five scientists present ResiPy, an object-oriented open source software, licensed under the EUPL-1.2, to compute the annual production of agricultural/natural products and its resilience indicator. This indicator can be applied to different anthropic and natural systems, e.g., agricultural production, natural vegetation and water resources, to quantify their stabilities and the…
Energy and environmentFoodIndustry and production
Last update: 10/02/2021
Government OSPOs for Europe
The final results of the European Commission Study on the Impact of Open Source Software and Hardware were presented on 5 February at the European Open Source Policy Summit, opened by Commissioner Breton. A part of this presentation was the recommendation to leverage the European Commission Open Source Programme Office (OSPO) to scale Open Source across Europe. Sachiko Muto, CEO of OpenForum Europe opened the conference by saying the study is “a big moment” for European Open Source policy and beyond. The Commission’s DG Connect tasked Fraunhofer ISI and OpenForum Europe to conduct a…
Open Source SoftwareIndustry and production+3 topics
v1.01
Release date: 19/08/2020
CMISA Common Data Model
Release of CMISA Common Data Model Common Data Model is now available in various formats to be used by the websites to share / publish their datasets on innovation supporting actors in a standard and harmonised way. It represents a robust semantic model that promotes Innovation Supporting Actors by facilitating data exchange, sharing and publishing of data. The serialisation is available in following formats: The document in 'excel' format (Annex 1) represents the core part of the model; The 'word' document compliments it with additional information and examples in usage notes; UML diagram…