ADNOM: Topic Maps for European Administrative Nomenclature

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ADNOM Topic Maps for European Administrative
Nomenclature

• Peter-Paul Kruijsen, Gabriel Hopmans
• _at_ Morpheus
• Léon Oud, Jelte Verhoeff
• _at_ Conclusion
• John Clews _at_ Keytempo
• Marc-Wilhelm Kuster , FH Worms

Morpheus Software http//www.mssm.nl
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Introduction

• The ADNOM Project/Workshop
• ADNOM core system and operational network
• TMRAP, ebXML
• Impact that ADNOM might going to have
• How to make it a long term network

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What is ADNOM?

• a CEN/ISSS 1 workshop funded by EC
• infrastructure based on open standards,
  facilitating the access to information about high
  quality terminology resources in the public
  domain.
• key deliverable is partly a specimen and partly
  an initiation of an infrastructure.
• It is intended to provide assistance to the
  European citizen in general and administrations
  in particular in finding multilingual
  information. It will be developed to facilitate
  eGovernment interaction
• 1 CEN Comité européen de normalisation
  (European Committee for Standardisation)
• ISSS Information Society Standardisation System

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ADNOM Structure

• Users (only) all those working in Government (in
  EU/EFTA member states)
• But starting with those in labyrinth of
  administrative terminology and translation
  services
• Project Team
• Wp 1 A study of the current situation as to
  national and regional terminology work relating
  to Administrative Nomenclature
• Wp 2 3 Network development/operation
• Wp 4 Meta-terminology
• Wp 5 Federated Registry
• Members
• Secretary Standards Norway Secretary
• Håvard Hjulstad (hhj_at_standard.no)
• Chaired by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Budin

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Requirements ADNOM network

• Multilingual
• Both in the thesauri and user interface
• Ease of use
• Easy querying and deliver high quality results
• Additional data and expansions of the framework
  have to be integrated easily
• Avoid dangers on the road like property rights,
  ownership
• Recognition
• The ADNOM network needs European wide recognition
  as a high quality resource

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Little background ..

• Begin 2005 SKI-MAPS project EC proposal
• Seamless Knowledge for Government
• Published subjects repository offering services
  for automated discovery of such identifiers.
• Conclusion, Ontopia, Morpheus, Keytempo
• This made it that
• The authors became involved in the team
• And that ADNOM became Topic Maps based

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Approach

• Reuse sources, make a Seamless Knowledge Coded
  Nomenclature Model and facets.
• Principal Facets
• Administrative functions (built on COFOG
  (Classification of the Functions of Government)
• Administrative jurisdictions (based on NUTS
  codes)
• Administrative organs (developed within ADNOM).

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Coded Nomenclature

• Acts as coat rack, coat hangers and coats
• Different coats (colour, shape)
• Deep-level NACE, GEMET, NUTS and LAU codes and
  headings, and stable identifiers for terms.
• Coat hangers provide a means to standardize the
  way coats are put up on the rack
• Broad-level NACE, GEMET, NUTS and LAU codes and
  headings.
• Coat rack itself provides a means to connect all
  the different coats in a meaningful way
• Top-level ADNOM/COFOG codes and headings.

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Areas of the framework

• 0 Organ(ization)s
• to be developed by ADNOM (the Finnish ADNOM files
  have useful starting points)
• 1 Functions
• COFOG Level 2 terms (top level, unexpanded)
• 2 Services
• EUROVOC codes (more detailed terms)
• 3 Industries
• NACE codes (more detailed terms)
• 4 Jurisdictions
• NUTS codes (more detailed terms)

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Administrative functions facet
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Binding points ..
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So far support 26 languages
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Reuse results

• European Parliament
• Eurovoc
• Agrovoc
• Gemet
• GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus

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Include PSIs

• Include PSI into Danisch Eurovoc XTM

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Merge ADNOM-SKC and Eurovoc
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ADNOMs contribution for Topic Maps Community

• use and extend OASIS PSI sets
• Broad scale exposure in Europe
• Funding for large scale project?
• One of goals is to get a registry for PSI sets

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What impact ADNOM might have

• Some eGovernmental circles
• eGovernment Focus Group
• Presidencies UK, Austria
• Initiatives around ebXML
• In Brussels there are rumours
• Governmental organisations in Europe as audience
  might have an important impact on all Topic Maps
  activities
• The same as DARPA had for DAML OWL?
• Lot of TM-based projects have been rejected at EC
  before

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Promote the following

• European Conference the communicative
  Government, 1 December, Brussels
• A comparative analysis of terminology systems
  and projects improving transparency and
  effectiveness of government administrations in
  the European Union
• How to explain/illustrate the idea of things like
  TMRAP to Ministers?

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Contact

• If interested subscribe to mailing list of ADNOM
  and send request to
• Håvard Hjulstad hhj_at_standard.no