Portal support glossary
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A detailed, in-depth examination of a particular project, initiative, organisation, or situation, used to analyse its processes, challenges, solutions, and outcomes. Case studies provide practical insights, lessons learned, and examples that can inform decision-making or the implementation of similar projects elsewhere.
Collections provide a distinct, easy way to group content that is related to a specific subject field. All Portal content resides under a collection (i.e., solutions, documents, news, events etc.).
In a Contributor Licence Agreement (CLA), the rights of a specific contributor are assigned or granted to the party to whom the contribution is given. In a simple case, a contributor assigns their copyright to the party who is contributing. This is an additional, complementary licence that aims to prevent problems that arise from multiple copyright ownerships.
Copyleft is the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions of a work for others and requiring that the same freedoms be preserved in modified versions. An author may, through a copyleft licensing scheme, give every person who receives a copy of a work permission to reproduce, adapt or distribute the work as long as any resulting copies…
read moreThe copyright is a legal means to grant a creator of an intellectual property the exclusive rights to this property for a limited period of time. These exclusive rights comprise the right to exclude other parties from using the intellectual property, or to set certain limitations on the allowed usage. Additionally, copyright owners may totally transfer their ownership to another party or may…
read moreA core vocabulary is a core concept such as a Person, represented in a representation language, such as a RDF or XML schema.
The ability of Union entities and public sector bodies of Member States to interact with each other across borders by sharing data, information and knowledge through digital processes in line with the legal, organisational, semantic and technical requirements related to such cross-border interaction.