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Last update: 14/02/2024

SEMIC Support Centre

​The Semantic Interoperability Community develops solutions to help European public administrations perform meaningful cross-border and cross-domain data exchanges.
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Last update: 20/03/2024

SEMIC Conference

#SEMIC2024 will take place on 27 June 2024 in Brussels!SEMIC is returning on 27 June for an exciting event in Brussels - the heart of the European Union!Hosted by the European Commission, in...
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Last update: 24/08/2023

Rolling Plan 2023

The Rolling Plan for ICT Standardisation provides a unique bridge between EU policies and standardisation activities concerning information and communication technologies (ICT). This helps to increase...
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Last update: 21/03/2024

Personal Data Spaces

What are Personal Data Spaces? The Data Governance Act introduces new concepts & mechanisms, such as data intermediaries, to enable the safe reuse of certain categories of public-sector data that are...
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Last update: 04/03/2024

Data Spaces

The European Commission adopted a European strategy for data in 2020 which aims at creating a single market for data that will ensure Europe’s global competitiveness and data sovereignty. Common...
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Last update: 17/11/2023

Knowledge Hub

The SEMIC knowledge hub provides a collection of resources to tackle interoperability challenges, from reports, studies and guidelines to knowledge-sharing sessions and webinar recordings. You will...
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Last update: 26/04/2024

Enhancing Transparency and Efficiency: The European Union's Unified Approach to Short-Term Accommodation Rentals

As the platform economy continues to influence the tourism sector, the European Union is making efforts to better manage the local impact of short-term accommodation rentals. The regulation on data...
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Third Working Group webinar on the revision of GeoDCAT-AP

On 23 April 2024 from 10:00 until 12:00 CET the third Working Group webinar on the revision of GeoDCAT-AP was held.GeoDCAT-AP is an extension of DCAT-AP for describing geospatial datasets. It provides an RDF syntax binding for the union of metadata elements defined in the core profile of ISO 19115:2003 and those defined in the framework of the INSPIRE Directive. The goal of this revision and accompanying series of webinars is to align the specification with DCAT-AP 3.0 and its annex, DCAT-AP for HVD, as well as to investigate its relationship and intersection with other semantic standards in…
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EU Digital Identity Wallet

The European Digital Idenity Framework harmonizes authentication to digital services and enables sharing relevant identity data for citizens and businesses.
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Last update: 02/05/2024

Upcoming Events May 2024

The Semantic Interoperability Community (SEMIC) organises several workshops and webinars on various topics impacted by interoperability challenges in 2024. Are you curious about the planning for the coming month? You can check out the upcoming events on the SEMIC Support Centre.The SEMIC Team has prepared an interesting online event for this month. Namely, the Fourth Working Group Webinar on GeoDCAT-AP which will take place on Tuesday 14th of May 2024. The Fourth Working Group on GeoDCAT-AP, is planned on the 14th of May from 10:00 - 12:00 CEST. As part of the series of the revision of GeoDCAT…
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Last update: 29/04/2024

Interview with Alexandra Balahur

Alexandra Balahur is the team leader of SEMIC, the semantic interoperability project and community in the Interoperability and Digital Government Unit of the Commission’s Directorate-General for Digital Services (DG DIGIT). Her primary role involves coordinating efforts in semantic interoperability within her unit and bridging activities with other teams, such as Digital-Ready Policymaking, Open Source, and others. Additionally, she collaborates with other units engaged in data spaces and other Commission Directorates, such as DG GROW and the Publication Office (OP), linking semantic…
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SEMIC 2024 – Workshop for early-career researchers

We are inviting early career researchers (in their individual capacity) to submit abstracts of their research and present it at one of our SEMIC 2024 pre-conference workshops. “Interoperable Europe: From Vision to Reality”, the latest edition of the annual SEMIC conference, returns to Brussels on 27 June. Registration for the main event and the pre-conference workshops on 26 June has already started. SEMIC is organised by the European Commission in collaboration with the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It is the Commission’s flagship event on semantic interoperability…
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