Metadata How it has evolved in EU

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1 Metadata How it has evolved in EU Luca Martinelli, Publications Office of the European Union Zagreb, 26 September 2013

2 Overview Harmonisation of metadata: Why? How? Activities at EU institutions' level Work with EU Member States World Wide Web Consortium standards Metadata as Linked Open Data

3 Harmonisation of metadata To guarantee easier access to information To encourage and facilitate reuse of content and metadata To favour linking of data To preserve content and metadata access over time

4 EU institutions: IMMC - Interinstitutional Metadata Maintenance Committee (IMMC) Representatives of General Secretariats and their equivalents : European Parliament Council of the European Union European Commission Court of Justice of the European Union European Court of Auditors European Central Bank European Economic and Social Committee Committee of the Regions Secretariat: Publications Office

5 Metadata Governance at EU Interinstitutional Level STRATEGIC level Interinstitutional Metadata Steering Committee (IMSC) Suppléants of management board of Publications Office Interinstitutional Metadata Maintenance Committee (IMMC) Presidency / Secretariat EP CEU COM OPERA- TIONAL CJEU ECA EESC CDR level Metadata Registry (MDR) Head of MDR Metadata Register Team (MRT) DATA level Metadata Register MDR website (front end)

6 The EU Open Data portal: description of Datasets via Metadata EU ODP metadata catalogue Title Description URI Geographical coverage Last modification date Publisher (etc.)

7 Authority Tables and Metadata Registry 24 languages Customised to European Union 'world' needs To be used by: European Parliament, Council of the European Union, European Commission, Court of Justice of the European Union, European Court of Auditors, European Central Bank, European Economic and Social Committee, Committee of the Regions Metadata Registry Framework for the harmonisation of metadata elements and tables Reference for metadata validation Link:

8 Common Authority Tables (CAT) June 2013 No Common Authority Tables res. Source Technical status Data status 8/3 01 Languages (ISO 639/1, 639/2b, 639/2t, 639/3) + Multilingual 02 Countries (ISO α2 and α3, 3166/3 CF ISO + PO Stable 23 LV CF ISO Stable 23 LV 03 Currencies (ISO 4217) CF ISO Stable 23 LV 04 Places (locations, towns) CF UN- LOCODE Stable AsIs 05 NTU (Nomenclature of Territorial Units) Statistical and Administrative Units 06 Corporate Bodies (EU Bodies, International organisations) MKI Eurostat + ISO In progress AsIs MKI IMMC Stable 23 LV 07 Roles MKI IMMC Stable eng, fra 08 Target audiences MKI Lib. Congr. To be finalised eng, fra 09 Interinstitutional Procedures MKI IMMC Stable 23 LV

9 Common Authority Tables (CAT) June 2013 No Common Authority Tables res. Source Technical status 9/3 Data status 10 Events MKI IMMC Stable 23 LVs 11 Treaties MKI IMMC Stable 23 LV 12 Resource Types (categories of resources see also Common Data Model) MKI IMMC Stable deu, eng, fra 13 File types CF PO Stable eng 14 Judiciary Procedures MDU Court of Justice In progress deu, eng, fra 15 Results of Procedures MDU Court of Justice In progress fra 16 Forming judgments MDU Court of Justice In progress fra 17 National jurisdictions AMC + MDU Member States Analyzing

10 Work with Member States - DCAT Application Profile for Data Portals in Europe

11 DCAT objectives Identify the essential elements and attributes of DCAT in the European context Identify the controlled vocabularies to be used in the European context and Identify the strict minimum description metadata to be exchanged between data portals in Europe Who? Representatives from 40 different Data Portals

12 DCAT a shared initiative of

13 13/x Word Wide Web Consortium standards The Semantic Web: a common framework that allows data to be shared and re-used across application, enterprise, and community boundaries A web of data that can be processed by machines

14 Open up your metadata! Linked Data technologies: metadata can be connected and enriched, and links made between related resources; innovative services Open licence/copyright disclaimer: available for free, use and re-use are allowed for commercial and non-commercial purposes