On this page, we keep track of studies carried out under Action 1.1 and Action 2.15 of the ISA² Programme. They are grouped according the the following topics:
- Publications on the Core vocabularies
- Publications on the DCAT Application Profile for Data Portals in Europe (DCAT-AP)
- Publications on Linked Open Government Data (LOGD)
- Publications on the governance and management of structural metadata
- Publications on e-Document engineering
- Publications on the Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS)
1. Publications on the Core Vocabularies
- Position paper: eGovernment Core Vocabularies by Vassilios Peristeras. February 2012.
- Methodology: Process and Methodology for Developing Core Vocabularies, November 2011.
- Specification: Core Person vocabulary v1.00, May 2012.
- Specification: Registered Organisation vocabulary v1.00, May 2012.
- Specification: Core Location vocabulary v1.00, May 2012.
- Specification: Core Public Service vocabulary v1.00, March 2013.
- Tutorial: On the use of Crane’s Genericode-to-UBL-NDR to extend the Core Vocabularies and create e-Document formats, April 2014.
- Case study: How to describe organizations with Core Business Vocabulary and ORG Ontology
- Case study: Interconnecting business registers with the Core Business Vocabulary
- Case Study: Core Vocabularies - Case Study
- Training: Training Module 2 - Core Vocabularies, June 2014.
- Handbook: Handbook on using the Core Vocabularies, November 2014.
2. Publications on the DCAT Application Profile for Data Portals in Europe (DCAT-AP)
- Specification: DCAT Application Profile for Data Portals in Europe (DCAT-AP), August 2013.
- Study: Research Data Analysis, May 2018.
3. Publications on Linked Open Government Data (LOGD)
The ISA Programme has commissioned a number of studies as part of its Action 1.1 on semantic interoperability to provide further insight into issues relevant to semantic interoperability.
- Study: Study on Business Models for Linked Open Government Data - BM4LOGD, October 2013.
- Study: 10 Rules for persistent URIs, March 2013.
- Case study: How Linked Data is transforming e-Government, March 2013.
- Methodology: Cookbook for translating Data Models to RDF Schema, March 2013.
- Analysis: Report on high-value datasets from EU Institutions, May 2014.
- Study: Towards a common policy for the management of persistent HTTP URIs by EU Institutions, November 2014.
4. Publications on the governance and management of structural metadata (data models and reference data)
- Methodology: Process and Methodology for Developing Core Vocabularies, November 2011.
- Tutorial: Generate ADMS asset descriptions from a spreadsheet with Refine RDF, April 2012.
- Tutorial: SKOS used to publish the controlled vocabularies defined in ADMS on the Web, May 2012.
- Methodology: Process and methodology for developing semantic agreements, June 2013.
- Study: Metadata management requirements and solutions in EUIs and MSs, June 2014
- Tutorial: Tutorial on the use of SILK for aligning controlled vocabularies, March 2014.
- Tutorial: Tutorial: Give software taxonomies multilingual labels represented in SKOS, October 2012.
- Study: Metadata Governance Community (MGC), June 2014.
- Training: Training Module 3 - Reference data, June 2014.
- Methodology: Methodology and tools for Metadata Governance and Management for EU Institutions and Member States, December 2014.
- Methodology: Updated Metadata Governance Tools Report, May 2018
- Methodology: Guidelines for the Use of Code Lists, May 2018
5. Publications on e-Document engineering
- Tutorial: On the use of Crane’s Genericode-to-UBL-NDR to extend the Core Vocabularies and create e-Document formats, April 2014.
- Study: Analysis of structured e-Document formats used in Trans-European Systems, May 2014.
- Study: Guidelines for public administrations on e-Document engineering methods, June 2014.
6. Publications on the Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS)
- Position paper: Towards Open Government Metadata, September 2011.
- Analysis: Report on existing Semantic Asset Repositories, December 2011.
- Survey: Metadata Management Survey Results - Highlights, January 2012.
- Licensing Framework: Joinup Semantic Asset Licensing Framework, January 2012.
- Meeting Report: CESAR Virtual Meeting on the technical aspects of the federation, February 2012.
- Workshop: EU - CESAR Workshop 2012-03-07, March 2013.
- Vision Document: The vision for an enhanced software description metadata schema and software catalogue for e-Government, February 2012.
- Report: ISA Deliverable: Report on existing Software Forges, March 2012.
- Webinar Report: Software Forges: Webinar 2012.05.22 on the technical aspects of interlinking software forges, May 2012.
- Specification: Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS), May 2012.
- Specification: Asset Description Metadata Schema for Software (ADMS.SW), June 2012.
- Tutorial: Generate ADMS asset descriptions from a spreadsheet with Refine RDF, April 2012.
- Tutorial: Generate software description metadata from a spreadsheet with Refine RDF, September 2012.
- Journal publication: Gofran Shukair, Nikolaos Loutas, Vassilios Peristeras, Sebastian Sklarß: Towards semantically interoperable metadata repositories: The Asset Description Metadata Schema. Computers in Industry 64(1): 10-18 (2013)
- Tutorial: SKOS used to publish the controlled vocabularies defined in ADMS on the Web
- Video: Promo video of the ADMS-enabled federation of repositories
- Brochure: ADMS-enabled federation of semantic asset repositories
- Brochure: ADMS Brochure
- Case Study: RIHA semantic asset repository (Estonia)
- Case Study: Digitaliser.dk Semantic Asset Repository (Denmark)
- Case Study: Yhteentoimivuus.fi semantic asset repository (Finland)
- Case Study: XRepository semantic asset repository (Germany)
- Case Study: The Asset Description Metadata Schema - Case Study
- Case Study: How to describe semantic interoperability assets in an ADMS compliant way?