- From: Thomas Bandholtz <thomas.bandholtz@innoq.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:44:56 +0200
- To: public-egov-ig@w3.org
Hello eGov, since 1998 I am consulting the Federal Environment Agency, Germany, about building and maintaining public information systems, getting more and more involved in the European discussion following the European Directive on the Re-use of Public Sector Information, as mentioned in the eGov charter. More specific, environmental authorities in Europe have legal obligations according to Directive 2003/4/EC on public access to environmental information [1]. This first led to the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) [2], which is based on Standards of the Open Geospatial Consortium and ISO Metadata. Since 2007, INSPIRE is complemented by the vision of a Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) [3]. Earlier this year I have been co-editor of "Proceedings of the European conference of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU TOWARDS eENVIRONMENT. Opportunities of SEIS and SISE: Integrating Environmental Knowledge in Europe. Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, March 2009." [4] More specific, I chaired the workshop about "Shared Terminology for SEIS", focussing on the federation of distributed multilingual environmental terminology resources by means of the W3C SKOS Recommendation [5] and Linking Open Data principles [6]. This will be continued in October at the 5th Ecoterm Meeting in Rome [7] Most recently I am in discussion with members of the European Environment Agency about publishing not only reference vocabularies but also obligatory reporting data in RDF using the Linking Open Data pattern. These are enough reasons to be extremely interested in collaborating with the re-chartered eGovernment Interest Group in order to exchange blueprints and experience on the way to a globally interoperable shared information space for humans and machines! What we need are some few powerful common data schemes, one of them may be a RDFized version of the Observations and Measurements standard of the OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) suite (see we have to face a powerful Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) in Europe ...), but this is just an example. Some of the specific challenges we are facing with respect to public authorities are governance, syndication, provenance, trust, not yet solved sufficiently by the W3C Semantic Web Activity. Looking forward to a powerful next eGov iteration, Yours, Thomas Bandholtz Principal Consultant thomas.bandholtz@innoq.com, http://www.innoq.com innoQ Deutschland GmbH, Halskestr. 17, D-40880 Ratingen, Germany Phone: +49 228 9288490 Mobile: +49 178 4049387 Fax: +49 228 9288491 [1] http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/environment/general_provisions/l28091_en.htm [2] Directive 2007/2/EC, http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ [3] http://ec.europa.eu/environment/seis/index.htm [4] http://www.e-envi2009.org/?proceedings [5] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/ [6] http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/pub/LinkedDataTutorial/ [7] http://ecoterm.infointl.com/ [8] http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/om
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