CORE PUBLIC EVENT VOCABULARYKICK-OFF WEBINAR

2 FEBRUARY 2018

ISA² ACTION 2016.07: PROMOTING SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY AMONG EU MEMBER STATES

TOPICS OF TODAY

1. Opening – round table

2. Agreement on scope

3. Use cases

4. Existing modelling efforts

5. Information requirements

6. Next steps

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OPENING | TOUR DE TABLE

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AGREEMENT ON SCOPE

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WHAT IS A (PUBLIC) EVENT?

• Something that happens at a particular place and time (consensus of sources)

• … organised by an agent for a particular purpose (exclude natural disasters)

• … and is of interest to a general audience. (public)

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USE CASES

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POSSIBLE USE CASES?

• Embedded semantics (e.g. microdata, RDFa, JSON-LD) to improve the way a website is represented in search

engine results

Adding metadata to websites increases the visibility of events in search engines

• Information exchange between e-government systems or data portals

Published events can easily be reused and distributed by third parties

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POSSIBLE USE CASES?

• Finding related public events

Events that have the same target audience can be retrieved

• Planning a public event

Avoid overlap with other popular events

Avoid several public events targeting the same audience in a short timespan

• Find a good location to host an event

Retrieve similar events to plan back-to-back. E.g., a conference following a workshop on the same subject.

• Any others?

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EXISTING MODELLING EFFORTS

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EXISTING MODELLING EFFORTS

• Schema.org Event

Event definition: An event happening at a certain time and location, such as a concert, lecture, or festival.

• LODE: An ontology for Linking Open Descriptions of Events

Event definition: "Something that happened," as might be reported in a news article or explained by a historian.

• Eventi Pubblici

Event definition: This class represents a public event (e.g., a football match, a conference, a book presentation,

etc.).

• ComunWeb (next slide)

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EXISTING MODELLING EFFORTS

• ComunWeb vocabulary of public events

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INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS

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INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS

• Title

• Location

• Description

• Type

• Start/End date

• Time

• URL

• Price

• Organizer

• Target audience

• Purpose

• Any others?

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NEXT STEPS

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TIMELINE NEXT STEPS

• Use cases can be submitted on GitHub until Friday 9 February 2018

• ISA²/PwC will propose a first draft model by Friday 16 February 2018

• A webinar to discuss this model will be held at the end of February (date to be fixed)

• Finalisation of the model ready for public review by April 2018

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PROJECT OFFICERSFidel.Santiago@ec.europa.euSusanne.Wigard@ec.europa.eu

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DOCUMENT METADATA

Version: 0.1 Publication date: 30 January 2017

Created by: Brecht Wyns, Frederik Van Eeghem [PwC EU Services]Makx Dekkers [AMI Consult]Reviewed by: Fidel Santiago, Susanne Wigard [ISA² Programme, European Commission]

DisclaimerThe views expressed in this report are purely those of the authors and may not, in any circumstances, be interpreted as stating an official position of the European Commission. The European Commission does not guarantee the accuracy of the information included in this study, nor does it accept any responsibility for any use thereof. Reference herein to any specific products, specifications, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favouring by the European Commission.All care has been taken by the author to ensure that s/he has obtained, where necessary, permission to use any parts of manuscripts including illustrations, maps, and graphs, on which intellectual property rights already exist from the titular holder(s) of such rights or from her/his or their legal representative.

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