General Information
Name of the solution: Multilingual semantic indexing
Solution's owner: Publications Office, European Commission
Description: This public multilingual knowledge management infrastructure will support e-commerce solutions, such as machine translation, localisation and multilingual search, by creating interoperable multilingual classifications and terminologies that will be easily reusable by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and public administrations. SMEs are currently at a disadvantage compared to big companies due to the high cost of providing multilingual services.
Type of solution: Semantic asset
Multilingual semantic indexing implements the following:
| Principles | Interoperability layers | Conceptual model |
|---|---|---|
| ✅ Openness | ✅ Semantic Interoperability | ✅ Open data |
| ✅ Reusability | ||
| ✅ Multilingualism | ||
| ✅Preservation of information |
Multilingual semantic indexing implements the following recommendations as explained below:
✅ Recommendation 2 | Principle 2: Openness
Public Multilingual Knowledge Management Infrastructure allows terminologies owners to transform them in a semantic web oriented open format and publish them as open data.
✅ Recommendation 7 | Principle 4: Reusability
The multilingual classifications and terminologies allow public administrations to exchange and use data across borders.
✅ Recommendation 16 | Principle 9: Multilingualism
By aiming to create interoperable multilingual classifications and terminologies that will be easily reusable by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and public administrations, this action contributes to achieving multilingualism across Europe.
✅ Recommendation 18 | Principle 11: Preservation of information
Public Multilingual Knowledge Management Infrastructure contributes to long term preservation policy of data by providing common multilingual classifications and terminologies for data exchange across borders.
✅ Recommendation 30 | Interoperability layer: Semantic interoperability
Terminologies are considered as public assets that are to be shared and reused.
✅ Recommendation 42 | Conceptual model: Open data
Terminologies and classification systems are published in machine-readable, non-proprietary formats for sharing and reuse, in order to facilitate multilingual semantic access to public information services.
