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Sharing data across different sectors holds tremendous value. For example, to achieve EU climate goals, the exchange of carbon footprint data across various sectors is of great importance. Therefore, connecting different data sharing communities in these sectors is essential. However, sharing data across different sectors comes with challenges, as each sector develops its own vocabularies and tools. These vocabularies are not accessible across different sectors, and consequently, thus not being used in other sectors. To brigde this gap, a standardized solution is needed to exchange vocabularies across data sharing communities, enhancing the discoverability of vocabularies across different sectors.

Semantic Treehouse has a new front-end! At the end of November we rolled out the new front-end version 3 for all Semantic Treehouse environments. Although it is still a beta version (v3.0.0-beta), the new front-end fully covers all views from the previous environment and has been extensively tested so that using it is an immediate improvement.

Besides a new look and feel, many more improvements have been made in the new Semantic Treehouse front-end:

• Vertical menu bar: by moving the menu from the top to the left, there is more space for displaying the contents of the data models.
• User friendly routing: there is better emphasis on the most important content and fewer steps are required for a user to get to what they are looking for. Also, the search function is available in more views.
• Improved specifications overview: a better specifications overview with limited information on each specification and more focus on the newest specifications. For example, users can directly go to the treeview of a certain specification and the most important and/or recent specifications are highlighted.
• Multi-language support: STH platforms can be displayed in multiple languages. Each platform can set its own preferred language and enable support for other languages.
• Clean, simple user interface: the user interface has been given a modern, fresh and clean appearance, which for example makes comparing specifications in the treeview easier.

Special thanks to Simon from Friendly Pixel for designing and collaboratively developing the new front-end.

Check out the new front-end at any of the Semantic Treehouse platforms. We would like to hear how you experience using the new front-end. We also would like to hear from you if you encounter any bugs or improvements. You can contact us via Discord.

We are very proud that today, during the 'Semantic Treehouse gebruikersmiddag' in Utrecht, we officially launched the new Semantic Treehouse website. By launching this new website, a long-cherished wish to work towards an own, unique look-and-feel has been fulfilled. The first step is now taken by the design of the Semantic Treehouse (STH) website, but the STH platform and its community implementations itself will, in the near future, also evolve into this new style.

The new website contains several improvements, including:

• User-oriented content to better align with their desire to know how Semantic Treehouse can be used for publishing and maintaining a standard, engaging a user community, and examining implementations technically.
• Our own story, namely the genesis of STH, with a focus on how we have incorporated our own experiences and struggles with developing and managing standards as functionality into the STH suite.
• Customer stories from the various standard development communities that use STH in which they showcase the added value STH offers them.
• Extensive documentation for users, but also developers, community managers and administrators.
• A blog with the latest updates, news items, deep dives in one of the STH components, research topic, our roadmap, talks, etc.

Many thanks to Simon from Friendly Pixel for designing and collaboratively developing the new website.

Today we had the opportunity to present our applied research activities in the field of semantic interoperability in data spaces to the PLDN community. PLDN is the community of linked data experts in the Netherlands. In my presentation I positioned the importance of semantics, shared ontologies and a Vocabulary Hub in realizing semantic interopability in a data space.

The slides I used for my presentation can be downloaded here: Slides PLDN presentation

More about the PLDN event: event page

Position paper​

To read more about the topic of semantic interoperability in data space, please take a look at our position paper The Vocabulary Hub to configure data space connectors

In this position paper we propose a wizard-like approach for data space connector configuration, where data consumers and data providers are guided through a sequence of steps to generate the specifications of their data space connectors, based on the shared vocabularies in the vocabulary hub. We illustrate this with our own implementation of a vocabulary hub, called Semantic Treehouse.

You can download the paper here: The Vocabulary Hub to configure data space connectors or read the online page Vocabulary Hub

Our colleague Wouter van den Berg (TNO) presented our position paper The Vocabulary Hub to configure data space connectors at the workshop Data Space & Semantic Interoperability in Vienna.

In this position paper we propose a wizard-like approach for data space connector configuration, where data consumers and data providers are guided through a sequence of steps to generate the specifications of their data space connectors, based on the shared vocabularies in the vocabulary hub. We illustrate this with our own implementation of a vocabulary hub, called Semantic Treehouse.

You can download the paper here: The Vocabulary Hub to configure data space connectors or read online about the Vocabulary Hub

Op 17 maart 2011 had ik samen met collega's mijn eerste SETU-overleg. Op dat moment ben ik twee maanden werkzaam bij TNO, net afgestudeerd en een groentje als het gaat over data-delen. Aangenomen als junior adviseur IT-governance, was mijn betrokkenheid bij het SETU-project bedoeld als een klein uitstapje waar ik mijn adviesvaardigheden kon ontwikkelen. Nietsvermoedend dat het onderwerp data-delen en data-standaarden de rode draad en mijn expertise zouden worden in de ruim 10 jaar die volgden.