The Semantic Interoperability Centre Europe
Aldo Laudi · IGI Global eBooks · 2010
This chapter presents a case of a centralised and collaborative approach to interoperability in public administration: SEMIC.EU, the Semantic Interoperability Centre Europe.SEMIC.EU is a horizontal measure of the European Commission implemented with the primary purpose of enhancing semantic interoperability in public administrations and projects across Europe. The European Commission service calls on projects and individuals alike to share their solutions for semantic interoperability (so called “assets”) or to find them through a joint effort. A standardised clearing process governs the evolution of the contributed data models, XML schemas, code lists and ontologies and gives guidance to potential re-users.The chapter argues that especially at a high level of administration like the European one, the guiding principles for common solutions to semantic interoperability coordination must be. exchange of existing practices and community-based negotiation of purposes and meanings.