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ELISE - European Location Interoperability Solutions for e-Government glossary

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A mapping tool used to identify and compare certificates requested in public procurement procedures across the EU

A public sector process can be defined as a set of related activities which transform a certain input of resources (e.g. a (spatial) dataset, a register, statistical data) into an output of products or services (e.g. a decision, a permit or an answer), which often are delivered to citizens, businesses or other administrations.

The European e-Procurement Platform
European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register
Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language
Enterprise Content Management
Electronic Data Interchange
Enterprise Data Management
Energy Efficiency Directive

Is the use of electronic information and communication technologies in order to involve citizens and businesses in the activities of government and the public administrations, as well as facilitating interaction between administrations (ISA, 2015).

Environmental Information Directive (Directive 2003/4/EC on public access to environmental information)
Enterprise Information Management
European Interoperability Strategy
European Location Framework

Are single or multiple words describing a theory, method, technology, solution, service ...

They are well-defined and/or described, might have an acronym and are used consistently throughout one or more ELISE resources.

ELISE Resources: Towards a semantic-based Knowledge Transfer approach

Is the working dataset collecting all the metadata of all the ELISE resources (own definition).

ELISE Resources: Towards a semantic-based Knowledge Transfer approach

Any output/result from ELISE activities under the ELISE Action. Examples are reports, videos, webinar presentations, infographics, tools, etc.

ELISE Resources: Towards a semantic-based Knowledge Transfer approach

Is everything that exists in the context of ELISE, especially all the resources and their content that describe the ELISE Action (own definition)

ELISE Resources: Towards a semantic-based Knowledge Transfer approach

European Marine Observations and Data Network
Energy Performance of Buildings Directive
Enterprise Resource Planning
European Structural and Investment Funds
European Single Procedure Document
European Union
European Union Location Framework

A European ‘location interoperability framework’ with recommendations and guidance for the exchange and use of location information in government policy and digital public services, allied closely to the interoperability principles and scope of the EIF

ELISE Resources: The EULF Blueprint – Its role and how to use it

Vision and framework for 'location-enabled government', based on applying good practice in a number of 'focus areas'. It identifies the objectives, transition strategy and high-level actions needed in each focus area.

European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information
European Commission
COM (2018) 232 defines a European data space as “A seamless digital area with the scale that will enable the development of new products and services based on data”, The European strategy for data envisages domain specific data spaces for Industry, Green Deal (including evaluating the INSPIRE and Environment Information Directives), Mobility, Health, Financial, Energy, Agricultural, Public administration and Skills.
The European Interoperability Cartography (EIC), as defined by the Decision (EU) 2015/2240 is a “repository of interoperability solutions for European public administrations provided by Union institutions and Member States, presented in a common format and complying with specific re-usability and interoperability criteria that can be represented on the EIRA”.
The European Interoperability Framework (EIF) gives specific guidance on how to set up interoperable digital public services. It offers public administrations 47 concrete recommendations on how to improve the governance of their interoperability activities, establish cross-organisational relationships, streamline processes supporting end-to-end digital services, and ensure that both existing and new legislation do not compromise interoperability efforts. 
The European Interoperability Reference Architecture (EIRA) is an architecture content metamodel defining the most salient architectural building blocks (ABBs) needed to build interoperable eGovernment systems. The EIRA provides a common terminology that can be used by people working for public administrations in various architecture and system development tasks.

“…aims to provide guidance and to define priority of the actions needed to improve interaction, exchange and cooperation among European public administrations across borders and across sectors for the delivery of European public services”

ELISE Resources: INSPIRE training: From INSPIRE to e-Government

The only geospatial action within the ISA2 Programme. ELISE is dedicated to promoting and facilitating location interoperability. 

A European public service comprises any public sector service exposed to a cross-border dimension and supplied by public administrations, either to one another or to businesses and citizens in the Union.

ELISE Resources: European Gazetteer - survey analysis

An EU-wide, cross-sector interoperability framework for the exchange and sharing of location data and services.

The development of public policy which is informed by objective evidence, e.g. through data related to the content of the policy.

Refers to the ever-evolving concept of a Spatial Data Infrastructure, which entails new ways of governance of SDIs, new ways of documenting and accessing the data, new technical interfaces, etc. (own definition)

ELISE Resources: Location Interoperability – Lessons learned from the ELISE Action

Extended reality is a term referring to all real and virtual combined environments and human machine interactions generated by computer technology and wearables. The X represents a variable for any current or future spatial computing technologies

ELISE Resources: Immersive realities and location for better public services