mssm.nl

ADNOM: Topic Maps

for European Administrativ

e 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

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Introduction• The ADNOM Project/Workshop• ADNOM core system and operational network– TMRAP, ebXML

• Impact that ADNOM might going to have

• How to make it a long term network

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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 eGovernment interaction

• [1] CEN = Comité européen de normalisation (European Committee for Standardisation)

• ISSS = Information Society Standardisation System

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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

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Requirements ADNOM network

• Multilingual– Both in the 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

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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

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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).

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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.

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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)

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Administrative functions facet

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Binding points ..

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So far support : 26 languages

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Reuse results• European Parliament

– Eurovoc– Agrovoc– Gemet

•GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus

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Include PSI’s• Include PSI into Danisch Eurovoc XTM

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Merge ADNOM-SKC and Eurovoc

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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

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What impact ADNOM might have

• Some eGovernmental circles– eGovernment Focus Group– Presidencies UK, Austria

• Initiatives around ebXML• 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

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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?

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