ShowVoc is a web-based, multilingual, collaborative development platform for publishing, consulting and validating reference data and controlled lists of codes and terms used to organise information. Cross-dataset features, such as global search and the translation API benefit from the presence of multiple datasets creating a rich multilingual knowledge resource for term reference and authoritative term translation. With persistent URIs, managed concepts are correctly referenced in any domain. Developed in a context neutral way as an open-source project, it can be deployed or further developed…

Within the context of the Kohesio pilot of DG REGIO, a Wikibase instance has been set up by DG CNECT to bring together project related documentation in regards to the usage and monitoring of regional funding across EU Member States. The project is not public and merely in a pilot phase. DIGIT identified in the context of this collaboration the need for a validator to streamline the import of data, defined as CSV files, from Member States into a Wikibase instance, which could be potentially used in the future by the Kohesio project but also in other application domains. The validator is…

RDA FAIR data maturity model: specification and guidelines In June 2020, the Research Data Alliance Foundation (RDA) published an RDA Recommendation on the RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model, with a set of indicators and evaluation levels for assessment of FAIRness in research data. The model was developed by the RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model Working Group, with participation of over 200 experts on research data from more than 20 countries over 18 months between January 2019 and June 2020. It proposes a set of indicators, priorities and maturity levels for the evaluation of FAIRness on a general…

AKN4EU the future machine-readable structured format for the exchange of legal documents in the EU decision-making process. It is widely accepted that the use of common formats greatly facilitates the exchange and reuse of information: common formats enable interoperability. The adoption of common formats increases efficiency and quality as well as facilitating synergies between the entities involved, and this leads to savings in time and money. This is particularly true for legislative documents produced by the EU institutions during the interinstitutional legislative process. Since 2018 the…

CSW-4-Web is a proof-of-concept API designed to expose a CSW endpoint in a Web-friendly way, and enabling the exploration of its content without the need of specific client applications. Basically, CSW-4-Web turns a CSW endpoint into a Web site, consisting of three main sections: The description of the service itself The list of resources available from the endpoint The detailed description of each resource These pages are generated via a customised version of the GeoDCAT-AP API, which converts the XML output of the relevant CSW calls into an HTML+RDFa representation - i.e., an HTML page, with…

The GeoDCAT-AP is a proof of concept for the implementation of GeoDCAT-AP, the geospatial profile of DCAT Application Profile for data portals in Europe (DCAT-AP). The GeoDCAT-AP XSLT can be run directly on the ouput of a CSW or on single metadata records, by using any of the programming languages supporting XSLT conversion. The actual output of the XSLT depends on configuration parameters that specify: whether to use the core or extended GeoDCAT-AP profile; which spatial reference system to use for the geometry encoding of the bounding box (when available). The HTTP URIs to be used for the…

GeoDCAT-AP is an extension of DCAT-AP for describing geospatial datasets, dataset series and services. It provides an RDF syntax binding for the union of metadata elements defined in the core profile of ISO 19115:2003 and those defined in the framework of the INSPIRE Directive. Its basic use case is to make spatial datasets, data series and services searchable on general data portals, thereby making geospatial information better searchable across borders and sectors. This can be achieved by the exchange of descriptions of data sets among data portals. 1. What are the benefits of using GeoDCAT…

DISCOVER HELSINKI: AUDIO BASED INFORMATION SERVICE FOR USERS WITH POOR READING AND WRITING SKILLS Löydä Helsinki (“Discover Helsinki”) is a web application information service for users with poor reading and writing skills. It provides information on the City of Helsinki and its services in audio form. The application speaks Finnish, Arabic and Somali. Discover Helsinki does not contain any written text and using it does not require reading or writing skills. The development of Discover Helsinki is funded by the European Social Fund ESF as part of KYKY II Project. Discover Helsinki is…

The municipality Nijmegen, like many other municipalities in the Netherlands, aims to provide as much data as possible to the general public. This concept is usually referred to as “open data”. One of the struggles of the municipality is the fact that its data is spread out over a great many internal (and sometimes external) systems. Because of this it is often unclear which data exists where, even for the public servants of the municipality itself. To combat this problem the municipality has introduced a central (open) dataportal accessible via opendata.nijmegen.nl. The goal of this…

OnToology is an on-line application that exploits GitHub capabilities to ease collaborative ontology (or OWL vocabularies) development focusing on ontology documentation (HTML generation, diagrams, JSON-LD context generation), evaluation and publication (using permanent URLs). OnToology reuses existing software to carry out the above-mentioned activities orchestrating the transition between activities and centralizing the resource exchange in GitHub rather than exporting and importing files in a number of different systems. OnToology integrates existing services as Widoco for ontology…

EntryScape is an information management platform built on the Linked Data technology stack. EntryScape consists of a set of single page web applications that stores information in a triplestore. EntryScape is Open Source but also provided as a hosted service in the cloud. The Terms and Catalog applications can be tried out at free.entryscape.com, in brief the applications are: EntryScape Catalog - manage your Open Data / PSI data EntryScape Catalog is designed to help data owners to describe their data in terms of catalogs, datasets, and distributions without having to be aware of the…

Suomi.fi-Finnish Service Catalogue is a base register and a software solution that includes standardized structured metadata of organisations, services and service channels. The data model is based on CPSV-AP (Common Public Service Vocabulary Application profile) but includes also wider and more detailed information on services and service channels. Key features: Structured multilingual (currently Finnish, Swedish, English and three Sámi languages are supported as is) metadata of organisation, service and different type of service channels, based on CPSV-AP. Manual multilingual (Finnish…