Green Deal Information Model

The AD4GD Green Deal Information Model (GDIM) is a common vocabulary aiming at providing the basis of a common green deal data space and enabling the interoperability of different systems, potentially from different vendors. This will in turn enable the analysis of data produced by those systems in an integrated manner to make economically and environmentally sound decisions. The model defines the data elements, including concepts, properties and relationships relevant to green deal applications, as well as their associated semantics/meaning
for information exchange.

Building on the review of the state of the art and based on the initial analysis of the modelling requirements, the AD4GD information model is built following best practices, and reusing and extending existing standard ontologies and vocabularies available for the relevant domains, including in particular OGC and W3C standards whenever possible. The model, though, is treated as an agile artefact responding to the changing requirements of the pilots and the wider GD ecosystem. The model includes semantic mappings (“alignments”) between standard and/or dominant data models/ontologies, which will be exploited in WP6 for the (semantic) integration of pilot data.

Based on the GDIM, i) data producers/integrators will be able to adapt and apply existing tools to pre-process, integrate and harmonise data from different sources (see Section 4); ii) service providers will be able to develop lightweight service wrappers and translators, also known as data providers and consumers, which will enable the different tools/platforms to expose and consume data in an interoperable form.