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<div class="layout-content"> <div id="block-ventuno-pagetitle" class="block block-core block-page-title-block"> <div class="page-title my-3"> <h1 class="page-title__title"> The Portal glossary </h1> </div> </div> <div id="block-ventuno-collectionsettingslink" class="block block-joinup-collection block-collection-settings-link"> </div> <div id="block-ventuno-content" class="block block-system block-system-main-block"> <nav class="glossary-navigator"> <a class="glossary-navigator-item" href="/collection/portal/glossary/a">A</a> <a class="glossary-navigator-item" href="/collection/portal/glossary/c">C</a> <a class="glossary-navigator-item" href="/collection/portal/glossary/d">D</a> <a class="glossary-navigator-item" href="/collection/portal/glossary/e">E</a> <a class="glossary-navigator-item" href="/collection/portal/glossary/f">F</a> <a class="glossary-navigator-item" href="/collection/portal/glossary/g">G</a> <a class="glossary-navigator-item" href="/collection/portal/glossary/h">H</a> 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href="/collection/portal/glossary/x">X</a> <a class="glossary-navigator-item glossary-navigator-item-all" href="/collection/portal/glossary">all</a> </nav> <div class="view-glossary view view-id-glossary view-display-id-main js-view-dom-id-97bd1c465931fbcf6bb21e6c420166a1be0e0eb21947dc20759db091b4510ad9"> <div class="view-content"> <h2 class="d-inline-block mt-3 px-2 py-1 bg-primary rounded fw-bold text-light h3">S</h2> <div class="views-view-grid"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12 col-md-6"><div class="views-field views-field-title-1"><span class="field-content"><a href="/collection/joinup/glossary/term/semantic-interoperability-asset" hreflang="en">Semantic (Interoperability) Asset</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-glossary-synonyms"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-glossary-definition"><div class="field-content"><p>A semantic asset is a collection of highly reusable metadata (e.g., xml schemata, generic data models) and reference data (e.g., code lists, taxonomies, dictionaries, vocabularies) which are used for e-Government system development.</p></div></div></div> <div class="col-12 col-md-6"><div class="views-field views-field-title-1"><span class="field-content"><a href="/collection/joinup/glossary/term/semantic-interoperability" hreflang="en">Semantic Interoperability</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-glossary-synonyms"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-glossary-definition"><div class="field-content"><p>The European Interoperability Framework (EIF) defines semantic interoperability as the ability of organisations to process information from external sources in a meaningful manner. It ensures that the precise meaning of exchanged information is understood and preserved throughout exchanges between parties.</p></div></div></div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12 col-md-6"><div class="views-field views-field-title-1"><span class="field-content"><a href="/collection/joinup/glossary/term/semic" hreflang="en">SEMIC</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-glossary-synonyms"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-glossary-definition"><div class="field-content"><p>The Semantic Interoperability Community (SEMIC) develops solutions to help European public administrations perform seamless and meaningful cross-border and cross-domain data exchanges.</p></div></div></div> <div class="col-12 col-md-6"><div class="views-field views-field-title-1"><span class="field-content"><a href="/collection/joinup/glossary/term/solution" hreflang="en">Solution</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-glossary-synonyms"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-glossary-definition"><div class="field-content"><p>Solutions are special content types that are created within a Collection.</p></div></div></div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12 col-md-6"><div class="views-field views-field-title-1"><span class="field-content"><a href="/collection/joinup/glossary/term/stakeholder" hreflang="en">Stakeholder</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-glossary-synonyms"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-glossary-definition"><div class="field-content"><p>Any individual, group, or organisation that is involved in or affected by the development, implementation, or use of digital solutions and services. This can include public sector organisations, private sector entities, civil society groups, and individual citizens.</p></div></div></div> <div class="col-12 col-md-6"><div class="views-field views-field-title-1"><span class="field-content"><a href="/collection/joinup/glossary/term/standardisation-body" hreflang="en">Standardisation Body</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-glossary-synonyms"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-glossary-definition"><div class="field-content"><p>A standardisation body represents a standardisation committee of any kind. This includes government (sometime referred to as official committees) standardisation committees, such as the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), as well as industrial standardisation initiatives, such as the Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).</p></div></div></div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12 col-md-6"><div class="views-field views-field-title-1"><span class="field-content"><a href="/collection/joinup/glossary/term/subscription" hreflang="en">Subscription </a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-glossary-synonyms"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-glossary-definition"><div class="field-content"><p>Registered users can subscribe to Collections and Solutions making them members of them. Subscribed users can also opt in to receive notifications for content updates that occur in the subscribed Collections/Solutions.</p></div></div></div> <div class="col-12 col-md-6"><div class="views-field views-field-title-1"><span class="field-content"><a href="/collection/joinup/glossary/term/syntactic-interoperability-asset" hreflang="en">Syntactic (Interoperability) Asset</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-glossary-synonyms"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-glossary-definition"><div class="field-content"><p>Syntactic assets define common data structures e.g., XML-Schemata, core components and related elements and resources needed to support the Syntactic Interoperability layer.</p></div></div></div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12 col-md-6"><div class="views-field views-field-title-1"><span class="field-content"><a href="/collection/joinup/glossary/term/syntactical-interoperability" hreflang="en">Syntactical Interoperability</a></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-glossary-synonyms"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-glossary-definition"><div class="field-content"><p>Syntactical Interoperability represents the ability of a system to communicate and exchange information properly on a technical abstraction level. The fundamental technical (syntactical) capability of communicating is guaranteed by a set of formal data, format specifications, communication protocols, and interface descriptions.</p></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <nav class="glossary-navigator"> <a class="glossary-navigator-item" href="/collection/portal/glossary/a">A</a> <a class="glossary-navigator-item" href="/collection/portal/glossary/c">C</a> <a class="glossary-navigator-item" href="/collection/portal/glossary/d">D</a> <a class="glossary-navigator-item" href="/collection/portal/glossary/e">E</a> <a class="glossary-navigator-item" href="/collection/portal/glossary/f">F</a> <a class="glossary-navigator-item" href="/collection/portal/glossary/g">G</a> <a class="glossary-navigator-item" href="/collection/portal/glossary/h">H</a> <a class="glossary-navigator-item" href="/collection/portal/glossary/i">I</a> <a class="glossary-navigator-item" href="/collection/portal/glossary/j">J</a> <a 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