The DCAT Application Profile for data portals in Europe implements the following:

DCAT Application Profile for data portals in Europe implements the following EIF recommendations as explained below:

• Recommendation 4 | Openness

  DCAT-AP is a solution that is based on open specifications and it is actively maintained by a community of developers.

• Recommendation 5 | Transparency

  The DCAT-AP for data portals allows the sharing of data and interconnection between national data portals and also with the EU data portal, hence ensuring external visibility of resources.

• Recommendation 6 | Reusability

  DCAT-AP is available for anyone's reuse as it is based on open specifications and it in itself facilitates the sharing of data.

• Recommendation 7 | Reusability

  DCAT-AP facilitates the sharing of data, by making it more easily shareable and accessible.

• Recommendation 8 | Technological neutrality and data portability

  DCAT-AP allows data catalogues to describe their dataset collections using a standardised description, while keeping their own system for documenting and storing them, hence ensuring technological neutrality.

• Recommendation 9 | Technological neutrality and data portability

  DCAT-AP ensures data portability by providing an application profile for interconnection between data portals in Europe and with the European data portal.

• Recommendation 11 | User centricity

  Content aggregators, such as the European Data Portal can use DCAT-AP it easily aggregate data descriptions into a single point of access.

• Recommendation 12 | User centricity

  DCAT-AP specifications are determined by a list of stakeholders following an open procedure. 

• Recommendation 30 | Semantic interoperability

  DCAT-AP contributes to the perception of data as a public asset by enabling the exchange of descriptions of datasets (metadata) among data portals. This facilitates the search and identification of relevant data for one's needs.

• Recommendation 31 | Semantic interoperability

  DCAT-AP provides a European standard for metadata publishing.

• Recommendation 39 | Base registries

  DCAPT-AP enables the sharing of metadata between different data portals by providing a specification to describe such data in a standardised way, hence ensuring interoperability.

• Recommendation 42 | Open data

  DCAT-AP provides a non-proprietary specification for describing public sector datasets in Europe to enable the exchange of descriptions of datasets (metadata).

• Recommendation 44 | Catalogues

  DCAT-AP allows data catalogues to describe their dataset collections using a standardised description.