Within the Dynamic Data Economy (DDE), the primary objective of the Semantic domain is "data harmonisation", which refers to all efforts to combine data from different sources and provide users with an equivalent view of data from various studies, providing an opportunity to structure unstructured data while offering a long-term solution for data language unification between data models and data representation formats within and across data ecosystems.
"Characters" provide the essential elements required for written language in the physical world. In the digital world, stored sequences of bytes known as "data" represent these elements. However, without a system of interpretation, data has no inherent morphological, definitional, or contextual meaning. This interpretation is provided by "metadata", sets of data that provide meaning to any stored sequence of bytes.
The core utility architecture underpinning the Decentralised Semantics Working Group (DSWG) is Overlays Capture Architecture (OCA), an architecture for capturing the metadata necessary to interpret and preserve the meaning of inputted data. In addition, the architecture introduces a comprehensive solution to support data validation, transformation, and presentation requirements throughout a data lifecycle. OCA is a proposed global standard for data capture that promises to significantly enhance the ability to define, manage, and use data in terms of simplicity, accuracy, and allocation of resources.
OCA follows the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data principles and the DDE principles for the Semantic domain, where "objectual integrity" is the core security characteristic, providing the overall accuracy, completeness, and consistency of data.Your content here
Working Group Scope. The DSWG will create and maintain the official Overlays Capture Architecture (OCA) Technical Specification, generate Source Code for open-access schemas, and create and maintain datasets and assets for the benefit of the OCA Ecosystem and Dynamic Data Economy (DDE) data ecosystems. The creation of semantics-related Task Forces and Focus Groups is possible, pending approval by the DSWG steering committee.
Chairperson. Paul Knowles (MeDDEa Solutions AG, Switzerland)
Co-Chair Ryan Barrett (Stratosoft LLC, The Netherlands)
Every week on Thursday at 5 PM CET
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