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In the past years, SEMIC has developed several trainings and has organised a large amount of knowledge-sharing sessions under the forms of webinars. On top of that, SEMIC has published many reports, studies and guidelines on various topics.

You will find below a list of all the trainings available so far regarding SEMIC topics as well as the latest events that have been hosted. This section also provides a selection of relevant publications including studies and reports on key IT and interoperability-related matters.

Studies and guiding materials

Throughout the years, SEMIC has published a large amount of reports, studies and guidelines on various topics. Find below all those publications, classified based on their type.

Find below a list of all reports and studies published on various key technological trends or semantic-related topics.

Name	Publication date
Report on the monitoring of the Berlin Declaration	May 2022
Study: Natural Language Processing for Public Services	March 2022
Report: Leveraging the Power of Location Information and Technologies to Improve Public Services at the Local Level	October 2021
Study: Analysis of the usage of the Core Public Service Vocabula ry Application Profile	October 2021
Study supporting the final evaluation of the programme on interoperability solutions for European public administrations, businesses and citizens (ISA²)	July 2021
Study on the development of a European framework for interoperability skills and competences in the public sector (EIFISC)	May 2021
Study: Recommendations for organising and governing integrated public services	February 2021
Recommendations for organising interoperable digital public services	December 2019
EIF roadmap: How to develop a new integrated public service	December 2019
Study : European taxonomy for public services	September 2019
Study : APIs for CPSV-AP based Catalogue of Services	September 2019
Study : Architecture for public service chatbots	September 2019
eGovernment factsheets Anniversary Report (2008 - 2018)	March 2019
Study : Integrated Portfolio Management of Public Services	March 2014

Find below a collection of publications on semantic interoperability and key technological trends, in the form of case studies and pilots.

Name	Publication date
Case Study : Creating a catalogue of services	January 2021
Case Study : Improving the access to public services information through new technologies and higher data quality	January 2021
Case Study : Making catalogues interoperable	January 2021
Pilot : Creating a federal catalogue of Public Services in Belgium	January 2021
Pilot : Creating a cross-border catalogue of Public Services with Finland and Estonia	January 2021
Pilot : Adapting the CPSV-AP Validator for CPSV-AP_IT in Italy	January 2021
Pilot : Tailoring the public service description editor to the Dutch national data model (Samenwerkende Catalogi)	June 2021

Find below a list of publications on semantic interoperability and key technological trends, in the form of guidelines and solutions.

Name	Publication date
Controlled vocabularies	January 2021
Guidelines on how to build catalogues of public services at one-stop-shop portals and improve user experience	June 2018
EIRA guidelines for the TOGAF interoperability ADM cycle	May 2018
Data Quality Guidelines	No date

Online trainings

If you want to discover more about SEMIC and become familiar with what we are doing, check out our selected list of trainings on various topics.

Many of the trainings below are hosted by the Interoperable Europe Academy in the EU Academy eLearning platform, an initiative of the European Commission. The Interoperability Academy aims at contributing to advanced digital skills of civil servants in the area of interoperability to support policy, service delivery and impact evaluation.

	Learning objectives Understand what the Core Vocabularies are; Understand in what context the Core Vocabularies could be leveraged; Understand the benefits of the Core Vocabularies; Understand how to contribute to their development and reuse them.

Learning objectives

Understand what the Core Vocabularies are;
Understand in what context the Core Vocabularies could be leveraged;
Understand the benefits of the Core Vocabularies;
Understand how to contribute to their development and reuse them.

Learning objectives

Understand what CPSV-AP is;
Understand the benefits of using CPSV-AP as well as the concepts of interoperability and Linked Data;
Read and interpret an RDF file and the different concepts that compose it;
Read and interpret CPSV-AP specification;
Structure basic public services according to CPSV-AP;
Be able to support the implementation of CPSV-AP.

Learning objectives

Understand the advantage and need of implementing BRegDCAT-AP;
Know where to find the specification;
Know tools and support that are available to help them in the implementation process.

Learning objectives

Understand what metadata is and how it relates to DCAT;
Learn about the history and objectives of DCAT and DCAT-AP;
Understand the basic model of DCAT; See some examples of DCAT entities;
Understand the differences between DCAT, DCAT-AP and DCAT-AP-OP;
Know some of the issues addressed during the development of DCAT and DCAT-AP.

Learning objectives

Understand the concepts of Linked Data;
Know the vocabularies used in DCAT and DCAT-AP and how they are used;
Understand the way DCAT-AP defines mandatory, recommended and optional classes and properties;
See the controlled vocabularies used in DCAT-AP;
Look at some examples and guidelines.

Learning objectives

Understand extensions of DCAT-AP and how they retain conformance;
Know the influence that DCAT-AP has on the developments of DCAT;
Discuss possible solutions to functional issues.

Learning objectives

Understand the concept of data decentralisation and personal spaces - what SOLID is;
Understand its possibilities, opportunities and limitations;
Understand how SOLID could be implemented in a given context;
Understand how EU solutions could leverage SOLID.

Learning objectives

Pros and cons of using Wikibase/SMW for your dataspace;
Lessons learnt from projects already using Wikibase/SMW instances;
Practical know-how about setting up a new Wikibase/SMW from scratch;
What should be on Wikidata vs in a local Wikibase/SMW;
Comparison between Wikibase and SMW.

Learning objectives

The 3 levels of priorities in Web API design for Linked Data publishing;
The LDES and TREE specification;
How to implement LDES on top of your existing dataset.

Webinars and awareness-raising sessions

Find below an overview of relevant webinars sorted by topics. If you click on the link, you will be redirected to a page where you can download the presentations used and find more information about the webinar.

Data Models

DCAT-AP identifiers webinar #2
26 April 2022

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Studies and guiding materials

Technological studies and reports

Case studies and Pilots

Interoperability guidelines

Online trainings

Core semantics

DCAT and DCAT-AP

Latest semantic solutions for public administrations

Webinars and awareness-raising sessions

Data Models

DCAT-AP

Catalogue of Services

Core Vocabularies

Other

Data interoperability services

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Data spaces