EC ISA Action 1.1 on Semantic Interoperability is calling for case studies and good practices on URI design, development and management.

Unambiguous, descriptive, navigable and persistent Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) are one of the pillars of Semantic Web and Linked Data. URIs enable the unique identification of a resource on the Web, let it be a document, a datasets, a person or an organisation.

EC ISA Action 1.1 on Semantic Interoperability is calling for case studies and good practices on URI design, development and management.

Unambiguous, descriptive, navigable and persistent Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) are one of the pillars of Semantic Web and Linked Data. URIs enable the unique identification of a resource on the Web, let it be a document, a datasets, a person or an organisation.

Public administrations are increasingly interested in catalogues of open source applications and seem less eager to maintain their own software development sites (forges) for this sort of software. Two illustrations of this trend include the Basque Region's May announcement of a push to increase its use of open source and the decision, in the same month, of the Austrian government to move its open source repository to the EC's Joinup.

Public administrations are increasingly interested in catalogues of open source applications and seem less eager to maintain their own software development sites (forges) for this sort of software. Two illustrations of this trend include the Basque Region's May announcement of a push to increase its use of open source and the decision, in the same month, of the Austrian government to move its open source repository to the EC's Joinup.

Public administrations that grasp the benefits of making publicly available their data will also increase their use of free and open source, experts on open data agree. Open data and open source face comparable threats: initial lack of support and a fear for the impact on the organisation.

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Public administrations that grasp the benefits of making publicly available their data will also increase their use of free and open source, experts on open data agree. Open data and open source face comparable threats: initial lack of support and a fear for the impact on the organisation.

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The European Commission's central information service, Europe Direct, is relying on mainly open source tools. Over the past years, ESN, the firm running the call centre on behalf of the EC, replaced many proprietary software applications with open source alternatives.

Europe Direct is a central information service reachable by phone or Internet. It provides local information services in every EU country. It can be reached in any of the 23 official languages of the EU.

The European Commission's central information service, Europe Direct, is relying on mainly open source tools. Over the past years, ESN, the firm running the call centre on behalf of the EC, replaced many proprietary software applications with open source alternatives.

Europe Direct is a central information service reachable by phone or Internet. It provides local information services in every EU country. It can be reached in any of the 23 official languages of the EU.

An Internet top-level domain name server (DNS) implementation, developed for Europe's .eu Top-Level Domain (TLD), is made available as open source by Eurid. The not-for-profit organisation which manages the .eu domain registry, developed the software, titled Yadifa, from scratch.

Eurid uses Yadifa alongside Bind, one of two other commonly used open source DNS systems - the third alternative being NSD.

An Internet top-level domain name server (DNS) implementation, developed for Europe's .eu Top-Level Domain (TLD), is made available as open source by Eurid. The not-for-profit organisation which manages the .eu domain registry, developed the software, titled Yadifa, from scratch.

Eurid uses Yadifa alongside Bind, one of two other commonly used open source DNS systems - the third alternative being NSD.

The Asset Description Metadata Schema for Software, ADMS.SW, specifies a standardised way for description metadata for software projects. The development of the specification is an initiative from the European Commission and brings together a wide range of experts in a Working Group. One of the Working Group members, Olivier Berger, was interviewed on the benefits of ADMS.SW and on how the specification can be implemented on existing software forges.