The ePO in Other Projects

The eProcurement Ontology underpins several projects in the EU public procurement space which ensures semantic consistency and provides a semantic basis upon which public procurement open data is queried. A few of the uses of the eProcurement Ontology are showcased below. Click on the links to each project to read more about the eProcurement Ontology’s role in them.

The Open Data Service

The Open Data Service is a service that continuously converts TED notice data, in xml format, into RDF format so that it can be queried using the SPARQL query language. Click here to read more.

Defining the ESPD

Defining the classes and relationships used in the ESPD. Read more about the The ePO’s role in the ESPD.

Querying RDF Data

Querying eProcurement data in RDF format using the SPARQL query language. Click here to read more.

The model2owl Project

model2owl is an automated technical tool that generates the artifacts of the eProcurement ontology before the release of a new version. Read more about the model2owl project.

The Public Procurement Data Space

Used in the Public procurement Data Space (PPDS) to link EU procurement data to national procurement databases so that more comprehensive queries can be performed on the data. Read more here.