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European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics

ERCIM

The main objective of ERCIM is to contribute to a leading role of Europe in ICT: by building a European-wide, open network of centres of excellence in ICT by excelling in research and by acting as a bridge to applications by being internationally recognized as a major representative organisation in its field; the portal which gives access to all relevant ICT research groups in Europe by acting as an interface for the non-EU member institutions within the European Community and other international organisations by cooperating with other international organisations in its field by promoting cooperation in research, technology transfer, innovation and training Thus creating added value for its members, for their countries and for Europe. In addition, ERCIM is the European Partner of W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, standardization body for the Web)

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Response to Legislative framework for the governance of common European data spaces

22 Jan 2021

The W3C Linked data framework can be instrumental to implement the vision set out in European strategy for data. In order to do this, the legal value of metadata – in the sense of data annotations – needs to be clarified to ease the creation of data value chains considerably. This document makes a suggestion on how to encode the needed legal certainty requirement into the act. The feedback also suggests to reconsider the definition of "metadata" in the act as the use of the meaning from telecommunications collides with the use of the term in data science.
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