Last update: 16/03/2025
SEMIC Support Centre
The Semantic Interoperability Community develops solutions to help European public administrations perform meaningful cross-border and cross-domain data exchanges.
SemanticsStandardisation
Featured Content
Last update: 30/01/2025
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.
Semantics
Last update: 11/04/2025
Rolling Plan 2025
This space collects the annual versions of the Rolling Plan for ICT standardisation, a document co-developed by the European Commission and the expert group European Multi-Stakeholder Platform on ICT Standardisation (MSP).
Standardisation
Last update: 19/03/2025
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.
Semantics
Last update: 02/12/2025
DCAT Application Profile for data portals in Europe
DCAT-AP is a specification for metadata records, enhancing semantic interoperability across European data portals. Based on W3C's DCAT, it supports standardised dataset descriptions, enabling efficient data exchange and reuse. It is an EC solution.
Standardisation
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
19/05/2026
Virtual event
CPSV-AP Webinar - 19 May 2026
Webinar on CPSV-AP
SemanticsDigital innovation
Last update: 20/04/2026
One Source, Many Services: How Finland Streamlined Public Service Descriptions with CPSV-AP
Finland's DVV successfully implemented the CPSV-AP standard as the foundation for the Suomi.fi Finnish Service Catalogue, a legally mandated national repository describing over 26,000 public services from 1,500+ organisations in a machine-readable format.
Digital governmentSemantics
Last update: 20/04/2026
Europeana pilots LDES to modernise cultural heritage data sharing across Europe
Europeana's 2025 pilot study confirmed the technical viability of using Linked Data Event Streams (LDES) to replace periodic data dumps with continuous metadata updates for cultural heritage institutions.
Semantics
Latest News
Last update: 20/04/2026
Romania’s open data portal: data.gov.ro
Romania’s central access point for public sector information strengthens transparency and digital governance by providing thousands of machine-readable datasets for free use and redistribution by all citizens and organisations.
Digital governmentDigital innovationSemantics
Last update: 20/04/2026
SEMIC support centre for semantic interoperability
The SEMIC support centre, part of the Interoperable Europe initiative, helps public administrations share, reuse, and align data by collaborating on promoting common semantic standards and interoperability practices.
SemanticsDigital governmentCollaboration
Last update: 11/03/2026
Interoperable Europe Roadshow: Germany
Held in Berlin in November 2025, the Interoperable Europe Roadshow in Germany brought together federal, state and EU actors to explore how digital‑ready policymaking and interoperability can drive modern, efficient public administrations.
SemanticsInteroperable Europe policy+2 topics