Publications Office Metadata Registry MDR INSPIRE Registry and

Publications Office Metadata Registry (MDR) INSPIRE Registry and Registers Workshop Willem van Gemert Publications Office of the EU Dissemniation and Reuse Directorate Documentary Management and Metadata Unit Standardisation and Registry of Metadata Sector

1/12 Publications Office previous architecture Authors CORDIS EU Bookshop General Publications Production TED Tendering Documents Dissemination EUR-Lex Official Publications Customers

2/12 Post-Transformation Programme architecture MDR

3/12 The Publications Office Metadata Registry (MDR) n Reference point for the registration and maintenance of metadata definitions and related authority data used for § production and dissemination systems managed by the Publications Office § inter-institutional systems supporting the legislative decision making process n A framework for the harmonisation and standardisation of metadata used within the European institutions and beyond § Metadata governance in context of Interinstitutional Metadata Maintenance Committee (IMMC) § Documentation n Registration of internal and external clients/client systems data requirements and transformation/export in human and machinereadable formats

4/12 Assets maintained in the MDR n IMMC Core Metadata schema(s) § Core Metadata element set used in exchanges between EU institutions (and soon Member States) in the legislative decision making process § Institutions specific extensions § Transmission protocol n Authority tables (controlled vocabularies/value lists) § Authority code + label in up to 23 -24 official EU languages + mappings § Tracing of evolution of concepts over time (start date/end date) § Available distribution formats: • XML (source) • SKOS • HTML § Used in IMMC Core Metadata schema § Used in EU Open Data Portal (Corporate bodies, Countries, Languages), ELI, ECLI, … n Euro. Voc resources (XML, SKOS, alignments) n Other reference data (css files)

5/12 Authority tables available n Corporate bodies (EU institutions, agencies and other bodies, services etc. ) n Countries n Currencies n Events n File types n Interinstitutional procedures n Languages n Multilingual (multilingual code combinations) n Places (locations relevant for EU domain) n Resource types (types of documents, e. g. regulation, directive, judgment etc. ) n Roles (role an agent can play, e. g. president, member, defendant, etc. ) n Treaties

6/12 Authority tables under development n Courts § Use contexts: Court Database Project, ECLI, JURE n Court of Justice specific tables § Events § Resource types § Roles § Formation § Procedures § Results n Nomenclature of territorial units n Target audiences n Frequencies

7/12 MDR clients n Publications Office § CELLAR (Common Content & Metadata repository) § Dissemination sites (EUR-Lex, EU-Bookshop, TED, Cordis) § Interinstitutional Style Guide (IISG) § Who is Who n Interinstitutional level § IMMC (EU institutions) § Open Data Portal (ODP) § COMREF § ELI, ECLI § EC Central Library (EAC) § … n Worldwide § ADMS (Joinup) § DCAT application profile § …

8/12 Workflow and Technologies used n Editing in Excel n Conversion to XML n Verification using diff report in HTML n Validation using diff report in HTML n Release in XML n Generation of derived distributions § XML § SKOS § HTML § xsd n Publication on MDR website n Dissemination through Open Data Portal and Joinup n Tools: JIRA, SVN, XSLT, Perl

9/12 IMMC governance procedure n Reception § Actor: Metadata Registry Team § Registration + Information of Submitter n Proposal § Actor: Metadata Registry Team § Impact assessment and preparation of proposal § Planning estimate n IMMC validation n Implementation and MDR publication n Coordination of implementation in client systems

10/12 MDR: Work in progress and plans for the future n Harmonisation and documentation of authority tables n Dissemination of MDR assets through CELLAR n Dereferencing of tables and individual concepts n Publication of additional assets § ODP metadata ontology (+ Evolution towards DCAT AP) § Common Data Model (OWL ontology describing EU publications domain) n Definition of publication RDF of authority tables § Containing richness of XML source § Alignment with other vocabularies (Library of Congress, VIAF, …)

11/12 MDR and INSPIRE n How can we create synergies between the MDR and INSPIRE registries? n Relationship of INSPIRE and IMMC?

12/12 Publications Office MDR contact details n E-mail address OP-METADATA-REGISTRY@publications. europa. eu n Public website (containing validated versions) http: //publications. europa. eu/mdr n Interinstitutional website (containing proposals) https: //webgate. ec. testa. eu/publications/mdrtesta/ n MDR on the EC Open Data Portal http: //open-data. europa. eu/en/data/publisher/publ n MDR on Joinup (ADMS descriptions) https: //joinup. ec. europa. eu/catalogue/repository/metadataregistry