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The role of Trusted Service Manager (TSM) is essential in the Near Field Communication (NFC) ecosystem. One of its responsibilities is to manage all or part of a secure chip hosting sensible data and applications named Secure Element (SE). The management of this SE is often based on a prior knowledge of its characteristics and on business and technical agreements with the chip provider and the Issuer. In this paper, we propose a framework to ease the management and the deployment of mobile contact less services on the SE by TSMs. The proposed solution consists in a three-layer framework. At the bottom, one encounters an OWL ontology-based model of the Global Platform Card Specification. The framework allows characterizing a given SE by injecting into the reference model the SE configuration data consisting in some management rules and a description of the card content. We propose to store the …