Common access
to EU information the CELLAR project
Audience:
Presented by:
Date of presentation:
EuroVoc conference
Peter Schmitz
18/11/2010
Table of content
 Transformation programme
 Target architecture
 CELLAR
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Transformation programme
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Foundations:
 Mission of the Publications Office:
“Access to Law and Publications”
 Development plan 2009-2012:
Publications Office has to put in place appropriate structures in
order to optimise services provided to its customers (citizens
and professionals) taking into account a more and more
complex and changing environment. Its should adapt its
organisation and improve efficiency to remain at the leading edge
in the domain of publishing and communication.
Implementation:
 Transformation Programme:
Alignment of business processes and supporting IT systems in order
to achieve the necessary flexibility to master technological
change, in particular in the domain of electronic publishing.
Has been launched in 2009.
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Transformation programme
4/7
Present: silos = independent solutions
Authors
CORDIS
CORDIS
TED
General Publications
Production
EUR-Lex
EU
Bookshop
Tendering Documents
Dissemination Specialized
portals
Official Publications
Citizens/Professionals
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Transformation programme
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Future: harmonized architecture = common & shared solutions
Citizens/Professionals
Authors
CORDIS
General Publications
Production
Official Publications
Dissemination
Tendering Documents
Common portal
Specialized portals
Target architecture
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Target architecture – projects & systems
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Common Portal
EUR-Lex
EU
Bookshop
TED
CORDIS
Portal
EURLEX
-2011
Common search service
Index and
Search
Common indexes
EUDOR
Archive
Long term
preservation
Common Content Repository
(CCR)
CELLAR
CELLAR
CONTCONV
EUDOR-2012
METACONV
Validation
Content
and
Metadata
Common Metadata
Repository
(CMR)
MDR/
RECORD
Metadata production
EUROVOC
Official
publications
Tendering
documents
General
publications
CORDIS
External
sources
Post-production
Production
CELLAR - Vision
To make available at a single place all metadata and
digital content managed by the Publications Office in a
harmonised and standardised way in order:
 To guarantee to the citizen a better access to law and
publications of the European Union;
 To encourage and facilitate reuse of content and
metadata by professionals and experts;
 To preserve content and metadata and access to
contents and metadata over time.
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CELLAR – A service enabler
On-line access
Provide on-line access through the Internet
portals of the Publications Office.
Automated access Provide suitable interfaces for access by
automated agents.
External indexing
Enable indexing by Internet search engines.
Notification
Provide configurable notification services (RSSfeeds…).
Downloading
Support sporadic and regular downloading of
resources (subscription). Regular downloading
should be configurable.
Specific formats
Provide formats, which are not natively available
in the CELLAR (LegisWrite, ONIX notices…), i.e.
transformation services.
Deep linking
Enable external referencing of resources and
guarantee persistence of links over time.
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CELLAR – Strategic formats
Importance of formats according to use cases (current
situation).
Format
Use case
Presentation
Indexing
Reuse
Deep
linking
Formex
XHTML
XML
XHTML
XHTML
PDF
PDF/A
PDF/A
TIFF
TIFF
Authenticity
 = essential,  = important,  = useful.
Long
term
preservation
Reproduction
Formex
PDF/A
PDF/A
PDF/X
TIFF
TIFF
TIFF
CELLAR – Accessibility
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 Access to resources
In general, access to CELLAR resources is not restricted.
 Unique identification
CELLAR URI for any content and metadata resource.
 Core metadata
Restricted shared set of metadata for each resource to enable
global search on the CELLAR, in particular through the future
Common Portal of the Publications Office, based on Dublin Core.
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CELLAR – Functional architecture
Publishing
Dissemination layer
Archive
Access
to and provision
of content
Long term
Definition
layer and metadata in the
preservation
Reference
requested
format
and/or
presentation.
Repository models (CCR and CMR),
Data layer
businessReception,
rules (for technical
uploading,validation
archiving and
and storage
dissemination),
Postof content andValidation
metadata.
Production
transformation rules, EuroVoc dissemination,
authority tables including translations.
Official
publications
Data flows:
Tendering
documents
General
publications
CORDIS
External
sources
(Court of
Justice…)
Production
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CELLAR – Based on standards
OAIS
Reference
Archive
model
Publishing
Dissemination layer
Definition layer
Long term
preservation
FRBR
Reference
XML
Data layer
METS
METS
PostProduction
Validation
Official
publications
Data flows:
Tendering
documents
General
publications
CORDIS
External
sources
(Court of
Justice…)
Production
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CELLAR – Semantic technology
SPARQL
endpoint
Publishing
Dissemination layer
Archive
Long term
preservation
OWL
Definition layer
Data layer
SKOS
RDF
PostProduction
Validation
Official
publications
Data flows:
Tendering
documents
General
publications
Reference
CORDIS
External
sources
(Court of
Justice…)
Production
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CELLAR – Macro planning
Phase
Phase 1 – full functionality
Phase 2 – production version
 = ongoing
Planning
Spring 2011
Autumn 2011
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Thank you for your attention!