SEMIC 2017: Data and Information Management

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June 14 2017

Data have become high-value assets for both public and private organisations. But only by being secured, accessible, shareable and reusable they deliver their full potential. This is the reason why several data and information management and governance initiatives are becoming increasingly important. Aiming at shaping long-term visions, these initiatives put in place the right processes, standards and tools for information sharing and reuse.

Next June 14 SEMIC 2017 will be held in Valletta (Malta), the international conference on semantic interoperability framed within the ISA² Program, which has been organized together with the Malta Information Technology Agency. For its seventh edition, several talks and presentations have been organized on the data management initiatives from the European public administrations and the private sector.

The program is divided into four sessions, the first of them will be devoted to information governance in member states, EU institutions and agencies; then there will be two talks on data analysis and the base registries as a source of master data and their interoperability. After a break, the conference will continue with a fourth session where attendees will be able to share their knowledge on the open data sector to close the day with a specific metadata panel that will deal with the information delivery and retrieval. 

Thus, this event has become a good opportunity to learn how leading organizations in Europe are creating value from the data both for the entities themselves and for other stakeholders by:

  • Investing in data and information governance and management activities;
  • Rethinking information retrieval and delivery within and beyond organisational boundaries;
  • Sharing information and collaborating;
  • Using data and information to improve decision-making.

The conference brings together around two hundred European professionals interested in belonging to the international semantic interoperability community, who have the opportunity to discuss in person with industry leaders while discovering new solutions, knowing real implementations and enriching their network of contacts.