• Introduction
• Technical analysis
• Issues and recommendations
• European SIF

Semantic Interoperability

Summary

“Address the topic of semantic interoperability across initiatives with priority. For example, evaluate a potential recommendation to INSPIRE and GMES to develop the specifications for relevant INSPIRE Annex II/III data themes and relevant GMES products with overlapping scopes in close collaboration.”

Classification

Category	Architecture
Identifier	ISSUE-ARC-003
Type of recommended activity	Further Investigation about the subject
Organisations addressed	Working groups of INSPIRE, GEOSS and GMES

Additional information

Context	Interoperability between GEOSS, INSPIRE and GMES will be dependent upon reaching common understanding of the information models and achieve semantic interoperability.
Rationale	All three initiatives have a different approach to the semantics of data. It will be important to understand how the different concepts relate to each other in order to achieve cross-initiative interoperability.
Dependencies	Keep synchronised with other more detailed technology watch topics
Further background information	Technology Watch Report - Architecture [PDF] Technology Watch Report - Data Harmonisation and Semantic Interoperability [PDF] Comparative analysis report (version 2) [PDF] Comparative Analysis Report (version 2) - Annex Recommendations [PDF]
Main discussion points	A Technology Watch Report on Data Harmonisation and Semantic Interoperability [PDF] has been created in GIGAS in order to analyse these interoperability aspects. Results can be found in the Comparative analysis report [PDF].
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