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

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

Post-Transformation Programme architecture MDR 2/12

The Publications Office Metadata Registry (MDR) 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 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 Registration of internal and external clients/client systems data requirements and transformation/export in human and machine- readable formats 3/12

Assets maintained in the MDR 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 Authority tables (controlled vocabularies/value lists)  Authority code + label in up to 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, … EuroVoc resources (XML, SKOS, alignments) Other reference data (css files) 4/12

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Publications Office MDR contact details address Public website (containing validated versions) Interinstitutional website (containing proposals) MDR on the EC Open Data Portal MDR on Joinup (ADMS descriptions) registry registry 12/12