Portal support glossary

A semantic asset is a collection of highly reusable metadata (e.g., xml schemata, generic data models) and reference data (e.g., code lists, taxonomies, dictionaries, vocabularies) which are used for e-Government system development.

The European Interoperability Framework (EIF) defines semantic interoperability as the ability of organisations to process information from external sources in a meaningful manner. It ensures that the precise meaning of exchanged information is understood and preserved throughout exchanges between parties. According to the EIF, semantic interoperability encompasses semantic and syntactic…

The Semantic Interoperability Community (SEMIC) develops solutions to help European public administrations perform seamless and meaningful cross-border and cross-domain data exchanges. Since its inception, SEMIC has contributed to the simplification of the environment in which EU countries exchange data for the delivery of electronic public services, addressing the issues and barriers related…

A smart city is a city or community that enhances the well-being of its residents, businesses, visitors, and administrators by providing digitally enabled services that improve quality of life. These services help cities become more sustainable, manage resources like energy and water efficiently, reduce traffic and pollution, support greener buildings, engage citizens in decision-making,…

A reusable asset concerning legal, organisational, semantic or technical requirements to enable cross-border interoperability, such as conceptual frameworks, guidelines, reference architectures, technical specifications, standards, services and applications, as well as documented technical components, such as source code.

The Solution creation/editing wizard is a guided, three-step tool that simplifies creating and updating Solutions on the Interoperable Europe Portal. It structures the process of managing Solutions, supporting key requirements of the Interoperable Europe Act such as monitoring and interoperability assessments.

Refers to the origin or the place from which the information is derived or obtained. This attribute is commonly in the form of a URL pointing to a specific web page or online resource that contains the relevant information or data. However, it is not limited to web sources (it could also be a report, a published document or any other form of publication). It ensures data traceability and…

Any individual, group, or organisation that is involved in or affected by the development, implementation, or use of digital solutions and services. This can include public sector organisations, private sector entities, civil society groups, and individual citizens. Stakeholders may have varying levels of interest in Joinup initiatives and may be involved in different capacities such as users…

A technical specification, adopted by a recognised standardisation body, for repeated or continuous application, with which compliance is not compulsory, and which is one of the following:
(a)‘international standard’ means a standard adopted by an international standardisation body;
(b)‘European standard’ means a standard adopted by a European standardisation organisation;
(c)‘…

A standardisation body represents a standardisation committee of any kind. This includes government (sometime referred to as official committees) standardisation committees, such as the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), as well as industrial standardisation initiatives, such as the Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).

Stories is a section of the Public Sector Tech Watch (PSTW) observatory which showcases stories of successful adoption of Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and other emerging technologies within European public administrations. 

Registered users can subscribe to Collections and Solutions making them members of them. Subscribed users can also opt in to receive notifications for content updates that occur in the subscribed Collections/Solutions.

Syntactic assets define common data structures e.g., XML-Schemata, core components and related elements and resources needed to support the Syntactic Interoperability layer.

Syntactical Interoperability represents the ability of a system to communicate and exchange information properly on a technical abstraction level. The fundamental technical (syntactical) capability of communicating is guaranteed by a set of formal data, format specifications, communication protocols, and interface descriptions.