mssm nl ADNOM Topic Maps for European Administrative

mssm. nl ADNOM: Topic Maps for European Administrative Nomenclature Peter-Paul Kruijsen, Gabriel Hopmans @ Morpheus Léon Oud, Jelte Verhoeff @ Conclusion John Clews @ Keytempo Marc-Wilhelm Kuster , FH Worms Morpheus Software http: //www. mssm. nl

Introduction • The ADNOM Project/Workshop • ADNOM core system and operational network – TMRAP, eb. XML • Impact that ADNOM might going to have • How to make it a long term network 2

What is ADNOM? • a CEN/ISSS [1] workshop funded by EC • infrastructure based on open standards, facilitating the access to information about high quality terminology resources in the public domain. • key deliverable is partly a specimen and partly an initiation of an infrastructure. • It is intended to provide assistance to the European citizen in general and administrations in particular in finding multilingual information. It will be developed to facilitate e. Government interaction • [1] CEN = Comité européen de normalisation (European Committee for Standardisation) • ISSS = Information Society Standardisation System 3

ADNOM Structure • Users: (only) all those working in Government (in EU/EFTA member states) – But starting with those in labyrinth of administrative terminology and translation services • Project Team – Wp 1: A study of the current situation as to national and regional terminology work relating to Administrative Nomenclature – Wp 2 & 3: Network development/operation – Wp 4: Meta-terminology – Wp 5: Federated Registry • Members • Secretary: Standards Norway Secretary – Håvard Hjulstad (hhj@standard. no) • Chaired by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Budin 4

Requirements ADNOM network • Multilingual – Both in thesauri and user interface • Ease of use – Easy querying and deliver high quality results – Additional data and expansions of the framework have to be integrated easily • Avoid dangers on the road like property rights, ownership • Recognition – The ADNOM network needs European wide recognition as a high quality resource 5

Little background. . • Begin 2005 SKI-MAPS project EC proposal – Seamless Knowledge for Government – Published subjects repository offering services for automated discovery of such identifiers. – Conclusion, Ontopia, Morpheus, Keytempo • This made it that – The authors became involved in the team – And that ADNOM became Topic Maps based 6

Approach • Reuse sources, make a Seamless Knowledge Coded Nomenclature Model and facets. • Principal Facets: A. Administrative functions (built on COFOG (Classification of the Functions of Government) B. Administrative jurisdictions (based on NUTS codes) C. Administrative organs (developed within ADNOM). 7

Coded Nomenclature • Acts as coat rack, coat hangers and coats: – Different coats (colour, shape) • Deep-level NACE, GEMET, NUTS and LAU codes and headings, and stable identifiers for terms. – Coat hangers provide a means to standardize the way coats are put up on the rack • Broad-level NACE, GEMET, NUTS and LAU codes and headings. – Coat rack itself provides a means to connect all the different coats in a meaningful way • Top-level ADNOM/COFOG codes and headings. 8

Areas of the framework • [0] Organ(ization)s: – to be developed by ADNOM (the Finnish ADNOM files have useful starting points) • [1] Functions: – COFOG Level 2 terms (top level, unexpanded) • [2] Services: – EUROVOC codes (more detailed terms) • [3] Industries: – NACE codes (more detailed terms) • [4] Jurisdictions: – NUTS codes (more detailed terms) 9

Administrative functions facet 10

Binding points. . 11

So far support : 26 languages 12

Reuse results • European Parliament – Eurovoc – Agrovoc – Gemet • GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus 13

Include PSI’s • Include PSI into Danisch Eurovoc XTM 14

Merge ADNOM-SKC and Eurovoc 15

ADNOM’s contribution for Topic Maps Community • use and extend OASIS PSI sets • Broad scale exposure in Europe • Funding for large scale project? – One of goals is to get a registry for PSI sets 16

What impact ADNOM might have • Some e. Governmental circles – e. Government Focus Group – Presidencies UK, Austria • Initiatives around eb. XML • In Brussels there are rumours … • Governmental organisations in Europe as audience might have an important impact on all Topic Maps activities – The same as DARPA had for DAML – OWL? • Lot of TM-based projects have been rejected at EC before 17

Promote the following • European Conference: the communicative Government, 1 December, Brussels A comparative analysis of terminology systems and projects improving transparency and effectiveness of government administrations in the European Union • How to explain/illustrate the idea of things like TMRAP to Ministers? 18

Contact • If interested subscribe to mailing list of ADNOM and send request to – Håvard Hjulstad hhj@standard. no 19