We would like to inform you that the ISA Programme of the European Commission is starting an activity to develop implementation guidelines for the DCAT-AP.
The DCAT Application profile is a joint initiative of:
- the Directorate-General for Informatics: DG DIGIT;
- the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology: DG CONNECT; and
- the Publications Office of the EU.
Share your experiences
If you have implemented or are implementing DCAT-AP, you have certainly gained valuable experience that can contribute in the development of the implementation guidelines for the DCAT-AP. We therefore kindly invite you to participate in this activity.
The focus of the work lies on practical experiences with DCAT-AP implementations. The objective is to gather and document implementation experiences, challenges and road-blocks that you faced, and the work-arounds that you came up with.
We would appreciate your response and hopefully your acceptance to participate in the development of the implementation guidelines by 15 January 2016.
If you are willing to participate and contribute, please submit your interest via E-mail replying to this list dcat_application_profile@joinup.ec.europa.eu. Please mention in your E-mail:
- Your name and organisation;
- Your experiences and your implementations of DCAT-AP;
- The issues you identified in the process of implementing the DCAT-AP which you consider relevant to be taken into account
- Suggestions, adaptations and change requests of DCAT-AP: new properties, usage of controlled vocabularies, etc.
If you already have documentation of your local profile or implementation guidelines, providing a link to such information or a copy of documents would help us to identify different approaches and practices already.
For more information and updates, please refer to the DCAT-AP page on Joinup: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/solution/dcat-application-profile-implementation-guidelines.