Document capturing SEMIC's history and key mile stones until 2020.

Objective and scope This study is providing an overview of the most relevant XML specifications used in message exchange between applications. It includes short descriptions of international standards including UN/CEFACT, UBL, XBRL, LegalXML, NIEM. Based on desk research this list has been enriched with relevant standards that have been produced by Member States. The following ISA² participating countries are covered in this study: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovenia, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia, Germany, Austria, Belgium, The…

The SEMIC action of the ISA² programme seeks to promote the use of semantic tools and solutions to overcome interoperability challenges between Member States public administrations when maintaining and exchanging data for the execution of European Public Services. To support this objective, the action has produced a number of studies, which focus on various aspects of semantic tools. This study explores the intersection between data quality management (from a data governance point of view) and semantic interoperability: how semantic assets support and evolve data quality considerations. It…

This infographic illustrates how data specifications developed by the SEMIC action of the ISA² programme can support the right of data portability, such as Core Vocabularies. Background The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into effect in May 2018, provides a new framework for harmonised governance of data protection rules across the EU and the protection and empowerment of EU citizens regarding the use of their personal data. The GDPR Regulation introduces the right to data portability (Article 20) which allows data subjects to obtain personal data they have provided to a…

The SEMIC action of the ISA² programme seeks to promote the use of semantic tools and solutions to overcome interoperability challenges between Member States public administrations when maintaining and exchanging data for the execution of European Public Services. To support this objective, the action has produced semantic specifications and solutions, which are available to public administrations in Europe free of charge. This study provides an overview of the potential use cases of ISA² specifications, focusing on Core Vocabularies and DCAT-AP, and assesses their potential benefits based on…

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into effect in May 2018, provides a new framework for harmonised governance of data protection rules across the EU and the protection and empowerment of EU citizens regarding the use of their personal data. The ISA² Action 2016.07 SEMIC: Promoting semantic interoperability amongst the EU Member States has developed this study that examines the use and application of Core Vocabularies and, more specifically, the Core Person Vocabulary as a potential enabler for the data portability right. It also assesses how public administrations in…

The purpose of this report is to analyse interoperability challenges in a big data environment, focusing on the requirements for data analytics across different publishers and across domains. To this end, we big data interoperability challenges were collected and analysed based on available literature. Subsequently existing standards and specifications used for data and metadata were examined and guidelines on how these can be applied to deal with interoperability challenges in a big data context were provided. This study looks at the interoperability challenges which may prevent organisations…

The recent European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) declaration has highlighted the importance of FAIR principles (see table below) for research data and the leading role that the European Union wants to play in this field. The declaration highlighted the need for a minimal set of interoperable research data standards, such as the ones discussed later in this report, for supporting this. Interoperable data standards for describing research data and metadata are expected to deliver the following benefits: Easier and faster findability of research data and metadata. Reduce the time for making data and…