The ultimate objective of the Representation Powers and Mandates (RPaM) Ontology is to put forth a commonly agreed vocabulary that conceptualises, formally encodes and makes data available about the representation of powers and mandates in an open, structured and machine-readable format. Context Information on legal entities and their powers and mandates is essential for businesses when establishing relationships with governments, customers or other businesses. However, the cross-border exchange of information is limited by the lack of semantic standards. The absence of such standards prevents…

In order to instigate and facilitate the use of electronic Representation Powers and Mandates across-border, the European Commission (DIGIT, with the support of DG CNECT), through the ISA2 Program Action 2016.12 “Semantic Interoperability for Representation Powers and Mandates”, seeks to create a shared European data model for Representation Powers and Mandates. Creating a common semantic framework will ultimately allow Powers and Mandates’ data originating from the information systems of one Member State to be processed automatically by the information systems in another Member State. Phase 1…