1. Value vocabularies maintained by the Publications Office of the EU
EU Datathon 2017 webinar 11/10/2017
Willem van Gemert
Publications Office of the EU
Directorate C - Dissemination and Reuse
Unit C.4 - Documentary Management and Metadata Unit
Sector C Standardisation and Registry of Metadata

2. The Publications Office and metadata standardisation
Benefits of standardisation
Reuse instead of reinventing the wheel
Better data quality  Better discoverability
Improved interoperability
More efficient use of resources
Main solutions
Metadata Registry (reference data repository)
EuroVoc (multilingual thesaurus of EU)
Our services include:
Maintenance
Governance (Interinstitutional Metadata Maintenance Committee, GIL EuroVoc)
Tools (VocBench, IMMC builder, …)

3. Examples of using EuroVoc
Indexing of documents in EUR-Lex and EU Bookshop
Classification of datasets in EU Open Data Portal
European Commission indexes Better Regulation Portal and New Europa site
Belgian Senate: Search for EuroVoc keywords
Belgian Parliament: Use of EuroVoc concepts to annote Parliamentary questions
Italian Senate: Classification of documents with EuroVoc
Language independent identifier (URI)
Improve quality of key words/descriptors
Improve discoverability of resources
Federated search: Retrieve documents from multiple sources indexed with EuroVoc
Double indexing through alignments
Advantages of using EuroVoc

4. Thank you! Questions? Contact: OP-CUSTOMER-SUPPORT@publications.europa.eu