Semantic challenges and solutions

180 seconds SEMIC.EU overview

SEMIC.EU Communities first experiences

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SEMIC.EU what is it?SEMIC.EU stands for Semantic Interoperability Center EuropeOpen platform as a single point of contact and information for semantic interoperability in Europe Collaborative tool permitting the sharing and reuse of semantic assets between European public administrationsService Center for European administrations and eGovernment projects Sustainable Service of the IDABC follow-up programme ISA scheduled for 2010 2015

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Why should interoperability be examined? Data exchange between different systems has to assure technical, syntactic and semantic interoperability

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Just an address . . .Beethovenallee 66 a1010 ViennaGKZ 0345345Beethovenallee 66PLZ: 1010Beethovenallee 66ViennaBeethovenalleeGKZ: 0345345. . . but what really is the right one?

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The exchange of address data . . . Addresse StrasseHausnummerStiegeTrnummerPostleitzahlWohnort Addresse CountyStreetHouse numberVillageCity Addresse StrasseHausnummerHausnummerbuchstabe ZusatzzifferTeilnummer der HausnummerStockwerkswohnungsnummerAdressierungszustzePostleitzahlWohnortZusatzangaben. . . what really is a House number?

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Further aspects . . .1. Do you really get the information required?

Customers address Delivery address?2. What about granularity of data?

Street and House number Street & No.

Delivery addressnameStreetCityHilton International Brussels

AddressnameAddressCityBoulevard Jamar 11

Customers addressnameStreetCityHilton InternationalBrussels

AddressnameStreetNo.CityBoulevard Jamar 11

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. . . how to integrate these information?4. Implicit knowledge has to become explicit

Brussels is a city of Belgium3. Data interchange has to solve questions of spelling

Brssel Brussels

AddressnameStreetCityBrussels

AddressnameStreetCityBrssel

AddressnameStreetNo.CityBrussels

AddressnameStreetCityContryBrusselsBelgium

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Further questions of information integration6. Data exchange and Data typ conflicts

Postcode in incompatible formats5. How to handle different nomenclatures and classification systems?

How do you migrate a three-thier to a five-tier classification system?

AddressHotelcategoryHilton City HotelA / B / C

AddressHotelcategoryHilton City Hotel

AddressnameStreetCityPostcodeBrusselsChar (5)

AddressnameStreetCityPostcodeBrusselsInteger

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Typical problems of semantic interoperability

Typical syntactic problemsTypical semantic problemsIdentifier conflictsScaling conflictsData typ conflictsRepresentation conflictsConflicts due to assymetrical or missing informationConflicts to different aggregation levelsConflicts of multilingualismConflicts of incompatibility

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Hands on examples of semantic conflictsISO Codelist issuesISO 3166 Country Codes Germany needs historical values (GDR)Important issues for eGovernment country code lists:who is maintaining agency?what is the update frequency?how to deal with historical data?what to do with plurality (ex. Kosovo) ?What to do with redefined values?

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Hands on examples of semantic conflictsISO 639-3/2/1 Codelist issuesISO Language Code List -> need for Venetian as languageAdditional 639-3 Codes:als ---> Tosk Albanian (the one you found already) frp ---> Franco-Provenal ksh ---> Klsch lmo ---> Lombard nrm ---> Narom pih ---> Pitcairn-Norfolk pms ---> Piemontese rmy ---> Vlax Romani rup ---> Macedo Romanian vec ---> Venetian vls ---> Vlaams

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Hands on examples of semantic conflictsISO Codelists issuesISO 4217 currency namesAlbanian Lek encoded as ALL poses some reserved keyword problems on some databases

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Hands on examples of semantic conflictsAuthority Tables / code lists / taxonomiessemantic waste tourism -> old batteries turning into valuable source of energy due to re-declaration by import/export in MSUK drivers licence register uses gender to constitute UID -> new person when changing gender

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Someones Bee may be anothers Reindeer

NACE-Code 01.49.1EMTAK (Estonia):Bee keeping

SNI 2007 (Sweden):Reindeer husbandry

CZ-NACE (Czech Republic):Raising of small livestock ATECO (Italy):Breeding rabbitsSK-NACE (Slovakia):Raising of farmed animalsNACE-Code 01.49:Raising of other animals

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Unity conflicts

1991 - Mars-Klima-Orbiter of NASA was destroyed (125 Mio. US $) caused by unity conflicts (miles and kilometers)

Bridge in Denmark -> Nordic Zero (Baltic Sea or North Sea?)

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Mapping of a persons languageGerman Ministry I Person attribute: Language, Level of languageGerman Ministry IIPerson attribute: Mothertongue, Foreign Language

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French scaling conflict in Nom Famille of FR_PersonFrench family name: Ministry of Justice (30 chars) vs. Ministry of the Interior (60 chars) vs. INSEE (80 chars)

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Semantic challenges and solutions

180 seconds SEMIC.EU overview

SEMIC.EU Communities first experiences

Next steps Closer Collaboration

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SEMIC.EU Scope Services Coaching, consulting and support to develop Interoperability Assets Collaboration Exchange with domain experts on relevant questions within pan-European data exchangeOnline Platform Communication platform and repository for interoperability assets

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SEMIC.EU competence network partner projects

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SEMIC.EU competence network partner initiatives

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SEMIC.EU platformVisibilityCollaborationAsset RepositoryNetwork of eGovernment

Clearing ServiceClearing ProcessSEMIC.EU RepositorySemantic Assets

Semantic challenges and solutions

180 seconds SEMIC.EU overview

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Why contribute to SEMIC.EU?Perspective of the e-Justice Community

Scope of eJustice CommunityeJustice is a growing network of judicial data interchange in Europe

Issues of eJustice CommunityJudicial Registers (NJR)Insolvency registers Commercial register portalLand Registers

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First Step Network of Judicial Registers one by oneTotal number of bilateral interfaces between 27 member states: 702

03/03: France and Germany11/03: Spain11/04: Belgium03/06: Czech Republik10/06: Luxembourg06/07: Slovakia, United Kingdom07/07 Poland, Slovenia, Italy12/07: Portugal

Network of Judicial Registers (NJR): For just one administrative procedure!

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The Idea Using SEMIC.EU services

Coaching Asset developmentClearing Asset improvementReusing Asset integrationAssetSEMIC.EU Support Enable semantic interoperability

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The process Implementation of Interoperability

Coordination of the first moversMethodical validation of the asset concept Roll out in various Member StatesAssetSEMIC.EU Coaching Services for Communities

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The general Concept of ReuseSearching the repository of www.semic.euFinding, evaluating, modifying

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Semantic challenges and solutions

180 seconds SEMIC.EU overview

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Next steps Closer Collaboration

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Closer CollaborateVisit www.semic.euGet registered in the SEMIC.EU competence network (User, Project)Publish your assets Give comments on assets and published eGovernment projectsHelp to improve qualityInform us about your activities

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*Erkirung SEMIC*Structure Presentation* Presentation Project as a whole (15 Minutes) Consortium Project organisation * Presentation Project (45 Minutes) Status Quo: European Semantic Interoperability Strategy Presentation Fields of Work Technical Platform Guidelines Synergy Governance Time and resource planning * Preview Microsite (10 Minutes) If applicable, name voting SEMIC vs. SEMANTIC Presentation and Discussion Stakeholder Online Survey **Structure Presentation* Presentation Project as a whole (15 Minutes) Consortium Project organisation * Presentation Project (45 Minutes) Status Quo: European Semantic Interoperability Strategy Presentation Fields of Work Technical Platform Guidelines Synergy Governance Time and resource planning * Preview Microsite (10 Minutes) If applicable, name voting SEMIC vs. SEMANTIC Presentation and Discussion Stakeholder Online Survey *Follow from slide Follow from slide *Structure Presentation* Presentation Project as a whole (15 Minutes) Consortium Project organisation * Presentation Project (45 Minutes) Status Quo: European Semantic Interoperability Strategy Presentation Fields of Work Technical Platform Guidelines Synergy Governance Time and resource planning * Preview Microsite (10 Minutes) If applicable, name voting SEMIC vs. SEMANTIC Presentation and Discussion Stakeholder Online Survey *In this example there are no mappings possible between the 3 pivot mappings.Instead each country implements interfaces with 2 of these mappings.Thus any 2 countries are connected via at least one pivot mapping.In this example there are no mappings possible between the 3 pivot mappings.Instead each country implements interfaces with 2 of these mappings.Thus any 2 countries are connected via at least one pivot mapping.Structure Presentation* Presentation Project as a whole (15 Minutes) Consortium Project organisation * Presentation Project (45 Minutes) Status Quo: European Semantic Interoperability Strategy Presentation Fields of Work Technical Platform Guidelines Synergy Governance Time and resource planning * Preview Microsite (10 Minutes) If applicable, name voting SEMIC vs. SEMANTIC Presentation and Discussion Stakeholder Online Survey **