ELISE - European Location Interoperability Solutions for e-Government glossary

Data harmonisation is the process of modifying / fine‐tuning semantics and data structure to facilitate compliance with agreements (specifications, standards or legal acts) across borders and / or user communities

Source: European Commision (2013). INSPIRE - D2.5: Generic Conceptual Model,…

Is the process to go from published raw data to interlinked semantic data, practice to the RDF format.

Source: Pan J., Vetere G., Gomez-Perez J., Wu H. (eds) Exploiting Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs in Large Organisations. Springer, Cham.

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The ability to examine multiple measures and multiple levels of data, to consider the research, and to draw sound inferences

Source: Love, N. (2004). Taking data to new depths. National Staff Development Council JSD, 25(4), 22–26

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Is a platform where users buy (obtain) or sell (provide) different types of data sets and data streams from several sources.

Data marketplaces are mostly cloud services where individuals or businesses upload data to the cloud. Those platforms enable self-service data access while ensuring security, consistency and high quality of data for both parties.

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A visual representation and organisation of elements of data and the connections between them. In the context of the geospatial domain, the elements refer to objects that exist in the real world and are represented as geospatial objects in the data model

ELISE Resources: Lessons learned from the ELISE Action. Where next?

Is about the protection of data against loss, leakage or unauthorized access. It covers aspects such as secure access mechanisms (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting), treatment of (privacy) sensitive data and more.

ELISE Resources: Lessons learned from the ELISE Action. Where next?

The entity responsible for producing and/or making the dataset available.

In the report data provider/data holder are treated as synonyms even if we are aware that some distinctions could be done.

ELISE Resources: Study of the terms of use applied in the INSPIRE resources and their usability barriers

Taking a data asset and using more than once for the same purpose

Source: Loshin, D. (2012). Data Governance and Quality: Data Reuse vs. Data Repurposing. The Practitioner's Guide to Data Quality Improvement.

ELISE Resources: Study of the terms of use applied in the INSPIRE resources and their usability barriers…

Data silos arise legally if it is not possible to combine data from different sources, due to incompatible licensing.

ELISE Resources: Study of the terms of use applied in the INSPIRE resources and their usability barriers

Source: Lämmerhirt, D. (2017)…

People or organisations that use data made available by data providers

ELISE Resources: Evaluation of Application Programming Interfaces for INSPIRE

Digital Government refers to the use of digital technologies, as an integrated part of governments’ modernisation strategies, to create public value. It relies on a digital government ecosystem comprised of government actors, non-governmental organisations, businesses, citizens’ associations and individuals which supports the production of and access to data, services and content through…

A business-driven framework that allows a community of partners, providers and consumers to share, extend or enhance digital processes and capabilities for the benefit of all stakeholders involved through a common digital technology system [Moyer, 2016].

Source: Moyer, K.R. (2016). Three Styles of Digital Business Platforms. Gartner Research, 12 October 2016, ID G00317581

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The change process associated with the application of digital technology in all aspects of human society.

The process covers renovating or optimising core IT and business services to enhance the existing business model and support digital business transformational opportunities.

ELISE Resources: Digital Platform for public…

Digital  twins  create  a virtual  replica  of  a  physical  product,  process  or  system.  The replica  can  for  example  predict  when  a  machine  will  fail,  based  on  data  analysis, which allows to increase productivity through predictive maintenance.

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The digital twin of government provides an ecosystem with an interface for government, industry and non-government organisations to work together in delivering a sustainable, intelligent place to live and work through improved societal outcomes.

Disruptive technology is an innovation that significantly alters the way that consumers, industries, or businesses operate. A disruptive technology sweeps away the systems or habits it replaces because it has attributes that are recognizably superior (…)

Recent disruptive technology examples include e-commerce, online news sites, ride-sharing apps, and GPS systems

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A distributed ledger technology (DLT) is a technology that facilitates an expanding, chronologically ordered list of cryptographically signed, irrevocable transactional records shared by all participants in a network. Any participant with the right access rights can trace back a transactional event, at any point in its history, belonging to any actor in the network. The technology stores…