SEMIC: promoting semantic interoperability amongst the European Union member states
The SEMIC action provides solutions to help European public administrations perform seamless and meaningful cross-border and cross-domain data exchanges. Learn more.
Title: A webinar on Artificial Intelligence and Public Administrations. |
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Description: The webinar explored the potential of artificial intelligence for public services, with a particular focus on a “semantics” perspective. Participants learned about state-of-the art developments, how public administrations research and apply artificial intelligence, and how various types of technologies (including semantic web technologies) enable different aspects of AI. |
Title: Catalogue of Services Webinar - SDG Metadata Model. |
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Description: In the context of the Single Digital Gateway regulation, the action "Catalogue of Services" from the ISA² Programme of the European Commission is working on the definition of a common metadata model for the Member States to exchange key information. |
Title: Catalogue of Services Webinar |
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Description: This webinar is about the update of the tools (Data Harvester and Description Editor); The publication of controlled vocabularies as SKOS; and The change management of the CPSV-AP. |
Title: A Webinar on GeoDCAT-AP: Adoption and implementation experiences of the geospatial extension to DCAT-AP |
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Description: The GeoDCAT Application profile for Data Portals in Europe (GeoDCAT-AP) has been developed as an extension of the DCAT-AP specification under the ISA2 programme. GeoDCAT-AP enables a cross-domain data portal search for datasets. The webinar presented examples of its implementation in EU Member States, as well as the integration and possible adoption of GeoDCAT-AP in specifications published by standardisation bodies - in particular, W3C and OGC. |
Title: Updated Metadata Governance Tools Report. |
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Description: This document builds on previous work carried out under the SEMIC action focusing on the governance and management of data models, as well as tools for managing data models. While the findings of the report could apply to almost any organisation, the analysis considers public administration representatives as its main stakeholders. The content provides guidance to owners and publishers of code lists on the selection of an appropriate tool for code list management, depending on their needs or the requirements of their organisations. The report also provides an overview of the main features such a tool should provide. |
Title: Research Data Analysis. |
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Description: This study investigates the suitability of the DCAT-AP for playing the role of this common agreement. The DCAT-AP is already successfully being used for facilitating the exchange of datasets metadata between general-purpose open data portals, and its applicability has been proven in the field of geospatial and statistical metadata. For assessing the suitability of the DCAT-AP as the common information exchange agreement for research metadata, we explore the alignment between the DCAT-AP and other metadata models used to describe research datasets by defining mappings. |
Title: A document on supporting the implementation of the persistent URI policy for EU institutions. |
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Description: The documents on this page describe the support to the implementation of the persistent URI policy for EU institutions. More specifically, three distinct documents are included with the goal to: 1) Revise the NUTS RDF model; 2) Identify good design practices for the local part of URI under data.europa.eu. For this, the local URI policies of various organisations were analysed, to describe their schematics in a uniform way and explain the rationale behind them; 3) Identify a set of criteria to assess collections of metadata, data, documents, datasets, etc. and to decide whether to create URIs under data.europa.eu, or to assign DOIs. |
Title: Webinar - Implementing ISA² Core Vocabularies in JSON-LD |
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Description: In this Webinar, implementers of ISA² Core Vocabularies present their projects, outlining their approach using JSON-LD. Participants discussed with the presenters and among themselves to gain a better understanding of the benefits and the challenges related to using JSON-LD for these vocabularies. |
Title: Webinar on Catalogue of Services |
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Description: A Webinar focusing on the achievements made by Member States of the EU in the area of public service catalogues. The European Commission wants to provide implementers the opportunity to showcase their work, to encourage the transfer of knowledge and innovative ideas, and to learn from cutting edge initiatives. The Webinar also includes discussions of change requests regarding the CPSV-AP. |
Title: SEMIC Conference 2018 Linked Digital Public Administrations |
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Description: Nowadays, public administrations exchange data with each other and with citizens and businesses, interconnect their systems and link their data. This brings direct benefit to citizens, as they do not have to provide the same information several times. Therefore, the interconnection of base registers, such as business registers, land registers, etc. plays an important role. At the same time, these registers hold data of immense value for the public, making these and other data produced by public services available and linkable with data from other sources. This provides opportunities for large-scale data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, as a source of knowledge for society as a whole. |
Title: Catalogue of Services Workshop |
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Description: The workshop presents real-life implementations of catalogues of public services based on the Core Public Service Vocabulary Application Profile (CPSV-AP). It will also enable sharing interesting experiences and good practices on a series of topics, such as improving user experience for citizen and business portals, the need for interoperable semantic models and tools, and the upcoming challenges in this area. |
Title: Webinar on Catalogue of Services |
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Description: This webinar covers topics on: • the results from the analysis of the generic list of public services; • all pilot activities, with a particular focus on the outcomes from the chatbot pilot; • interaction with the other Working Group members by presenting your key achievements related to the activities of the ISA² Action "Catalogue of Services"; and • potential next steps. |
Title: Webinar on Catalogue of Services |
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Description: The topics of this webinar include: • Present the overall objectives of the action for 2019 and the contributions expected from this Working Group • Discuss several questions regarding the following activities: • Taxonomy of public services • Feasibility study on the modelling of the processes of delivering for public services • Analysis and modelling of proactive services • Present briefly the issues opened on GitHub for changing CPSV-AP |
Title: Webinar on CCCEV evolution: past, present and future |
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Description: The webinar will present the evolution of CCCEV and gives an outlook on future changes. Participants will discover practical examples of how CCCEV is used by public administrations in Europe and the value it can bring to your organisation. |
Title: Webinar on GeoDCAT-AP: Adoption and implementation experiences of the geospatial extension to DCAT-AP |
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Description: The webinar will present examples of GeoDCAT Application profile for Data Portals in Europe implementation in EU Member States, as well as the integration and possible adoption of GeoDCAT-AP in specifications published by standardisation bodies - in particular, W3C and OGC. |
Title: Webinar on the Core Public Event Vocabulary - International development and future plans |
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Description: The webinar will present the latest state-of-play of the CPEV and gives an outlook on planned developments. From a user point-of-view, you will discover how the Agency for Digital Italy (AgID) is modelling public events and how it brings value to Italian public administrations. Moreover, you will explore initiatives on the development of public events data models, taken by public administrations outside of Europe such as Japan. |
Title: Guidelines for the Use of Code Lists |
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Description: This report aims to provide practical guidance to less experienced organisations on the use of code lists. |
Title: Catalogue of Services Webinar |
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Description: The discussions held focused on the below topics: 1. Two presentations from WG members that enriched the topics of the webinar 2. Brief discussion on the key findings and continuation of the following activities 3. Feasibility study on the modelling of the processes for delivering public services 4. Analysis and modelling of proactive services 5. Brief presentation of the proposed taxonomy, discuss the comments received and the use cases 6. Brief presentation on the issues opened on GitHub for changing CPSV-AP All the topics were tackled from the perspective of their integration with the Single Digital Gateway implementation plan. |
Title: SEMIC Conference 2019: "Linked Data Spaces for Citizens" |
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Description: The 9th edition of SEMIC, the annual sematic interoperability conference, was held in Helsinki, Finland of the 21st of October 2019.The event was co-organised by the ISA² Programme of the European Commission in collaboration with the Finish Presidency of the Council of the EU. The theme of this year´s conference was "Linked Data Spaces for Citizens", where the concept of trans-European data spaces available to public administrations was discussed and how these spaces create a frame for experimenting and implementing interoperable cross-border digital public services. |
Title: URI Standard & Guidelines of the Flemish Government |
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Description: This document describes the Flemish URI standard for the disclosure of resources, information and data, by the Flemish authorities and has been specified by Information Flanders. A checklist is included at the end of this document, which can be used as a self-evaluation instrument for the evaluation of URIs. |
Title: A study on the aspects of semantic tools. |
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Description: This study explores the intersection between data quality management (from a data governance point of view) and semantic interoperability: how semantic assets support and evolve data quality considerations. It describes state of the art concepts and frameworks for data quality and link those to semantic interoperability by studying how data quality can be improved. |
Title: Study on use cases and benefits of ISA² specifications. |
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Description: This study elaborates on the value proposition of ISA² specifications, including Core Vocabularies and DCAT-AP, to enable a technical audience to promote ISA²'s specifications in their organisations. The study assessed Core Vocabularies and DCAT-AP specifications potential benefits based on identified use cases, illustrated by practical examples. |
Title: A study focusing on the landscape of XML syntaxes. |
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Description: This study is providing an overview of the most relevant XML specifications used in message exchange between applications. It includes short descriptions of international standards including UN/CEFACT, UBL, XBRL, LegalXML, NIEM. Based on desk research this list has been enriched with relevant standards that have been produced by Member States. The following ISA² participating countries are covered in this study: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovenia, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia, Germany, Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Malta and Cyprus. |
Title: Towards an open government data ecosystem in Europe using common standards |
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Description: In response to the requirements of the revised PSI directive[iii], European public administrations have set up cross-domain and horizontal open data portals. Open data portals have significantly contributed to the establishment of the necessary foundation for a European open data ecosystem. This paper describes how such a common metadata language, DCAT-AP, was developed and implemented in national data portals and in the European Data Portal (EDP), how implementation challenges can be overcome and which benefits the DCAT-AP brings to data consumers, data providers, portal owners and society as a whole. |
Title: Technical workshop on Catalogue of Public Services vis-à-vis the SDG implementation
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Description: The workshop offered a unique opportunity to present real-life implementations of catalogues of public services based on the Core Public Service Vocabulary Application Profile (CPSV-AP). It also enabled sharing interesting experiences and good practices on a series of topics, such as improving user experience for citizen and business portals, the need for interoperable semantic models and tools, and the upcoming challenges in this area. |
Title: Webinar on DCAT-AP major release |
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Description: The purpose of this webinar is to present the new DCAT-AP validator based on the ISA2 solution Interoperability Test Bed, to discuss the new DCAT release, and to review an initial set of major change requests. |
Title: Study on the potential of Core Vocabularies to support the right to data portability under the GDPR.
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Description: This study examines the use and application of Core Vocabularies and, more specifically, the Core Person vocabulary as a potential enabler for the data portability right contained in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)3 and to assess how public administrations in the EU could comply with these provisions using Core Vocabularies. |
Title: A report on interoperability challenges in the big data environment. |
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Description: The purpose of this report is to analyse interoperability challenges in a big data environment, focusing on the requirements for data analytics across different publishers and across domains. |
Title: This is a case study. |
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Description: This study draws the link between Linked Data and eGovernment. It introduces Linked Data as an enabler of eGovernment transformation and summarises the initiatives of the ISA programme of the European Commission towards this direction. |
Title: SKOS, Simple Knowledge Organisation System |
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Description: The publication of controlled vocabularies represented in SKOS on the Web brings the following advantages: De-referencing: the principles of Linked Data requires each term in the controlled vocabulary to be identified by a corresponding term URI based on the HTTP protocol. The term “Taxonomy” in the “Asset Type” scheme has for example the following term URI: . This means that when someone else encounters such a URI, he can look up its meaning by entering the URI in the address bar of his browser. This is called de-referencing. This is simple yet powerful feature of the Web. Machine-readability: In the example of “Taxonomy”, the user can use the term URI to retrieve both a machine-readable and human-readable file containing definitions, labels, and related concepts for this term expressed in SKOS. SKOS is a W3C Recommendation and commonly used representation format for controlled vocabularies. Well-known controlled vocabularies such as EuroVoc have been expressed using an ontology that extends SKOS. Multilingualism: SKOS allows to associate labels and definitions in multiple languages to any concept. This means that we can associate the labels “taxonomie”@FR, “Taxonomie”@DE, or “taxonomia”@PT to the concept identified with URI http://purl.org/adms/assettype/Taxonomy to include the French, German, and Portuguese labels. At the moment, only English is available, but the ADMS Working Group is seeking help in translating these SKOS labels and definitions in multiple languages. |
Title: Semantic interoperability courses - Training Module 3 - Reference data |
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Description: By the end of this training one should have an understanding of: What reference data is, its context and purpose and how it creates value for organisations. Why it is important to manage and govern the reference data lifecycle. How to work with reference data using open-source tools. |
Title: Semantic Interoperability Courses - Training Module 2 - Core Vocabularies |
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Description: By the end of this training one will: Understand what Core Vocabularies are. Understand how to extend the Core Vocabularies depending on your patterns of information exchange Understand how to use and extend the Core Vocabularies in your own data models. |
Title: Semantic interoperability courses - Training Module 1 - Introductory overview |
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Description: This course module provides an introductory overview of semantic interoperability. |
Title: Tutorial: on the use of Crane’s Genericode-to-UBL-NDR to extend the Core Vocabularies and create e-Document formats |
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Description: This tutorial explains how to create an electronic Document in XSD format using the Genericode to UBL NDR tool of Cranesoftwrights. We have used the tool to create a sample document called ‘Business Activity Registration Request’ using the ISA Core Vocabularies and the UBL Naming and Design Rules. |
Title: Tutorial on the use of SILK for aligning controlled vocabularies |
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Description: This tutorial explains how SILK can be used to discover links between concepts in controlled vocabularies. By way of example, we have used SILK to create a mapping between the Named Authority Lists (NALs) of the Publications Office of the EU and the MARC list of the US Library of Congress. |
Title: Tutorial: Give software taxonomies multilingual labels represented in SKOS |
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Description: This article provides an overview of our work to publish the software taxonomies included in the Asset Description Metadata Schema for Software (ADMS.SW) specification as machine-readable reference data with multilingual labels. |
Title: TM1.1. - The PSI Directive and Open Government Data |
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Description: By the end of this training module one should have an understanding of: Open Data, Open Government Data, Linked Data and how these concepts relate; Open Government Data, related policies and initiatives; The role of the PSI Directive in opening up Government Data |
Title: TM1.2. Introduction to Linked Data |
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Description: By the end of this training module one should have an understanding of: What is linked data; What is open data; What is the difference between linked and open data; How to publish linked data (5-star schema); The economic and social aspects of linked data. |
Title: TM1.3. Introduction to RDF & SPARQL |
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Description: By the end of this training module one should have an understanding of: The Resource Description Framework (RDF). How to write/read RDF. How yto describe data with RDF. What SPARQL is. The different types of SPARQL queries. How to write a SPARQL query. |
Title: TM1.4. Introduction to metadata management |
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Description: By the end of this training module one should have an understanding of: What metadata is; The terminology and objectives of metadata management; The different dimensions of metadata quality; The use of controlled vocabularies for metadata; Metadata exchange and aggregation; Metadata management in Open Data Support. |
Title: TM1.5. Promoting the reuse of Open Government Data through the Open Data Interoperability Platform (ODIP) |
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Description: By the end of this training module you should have an understanding of: How you can overcome the barriers of reuse for your datasets. How Open Data Support can promote the reuse of datasets. What the DCAT Application Profile is and how it can be used. What Open Data Interoperability Platform (ODIP) is and how it can be used. |
Title: TM2.1. The Linked Open Government Data & Metadata Lifecycle |
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Description: By the end of this training module one should have an understanding of: What a lifecycle for Linked Open Government Data (LOGD) is. The difference between supply and demand of data. The different steps of an LOGD lifecycle. Tools and best practices associated with each step in the lifecycle. |
Title: TM2.2. Open Data & Metadata Quality |
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Description: By the end of this training module you should have an understanding of: What (open) data quality means. The open data quality determinants and criteria. Good practices for publishing high-quality (linked) open data. |
Title: TM2.3. Design & Manage Persistent URIs |
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Description: By the end of this training module one should have an understanding of: What is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is. Why is URI persistence important. How to design and manage persistent URIs for data resources. |
Title: TM2.4. Designing and developing RDF vocabularies |
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Description: By the end of this training module one should have an understanding of: What the best practices are for creating an RDF vocabulary for modelling your data Where to find RDF vocabularies for reuse. How you can create your own RDF vocabulary. How to publish your RDF vocabulary. The process and methodology for developing semantic agreements developed by the ISA Programme of the European Commission. |
Title: TM2.5. Data & metadata licensing |
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Description: By the end of this training module one should have an understanding of: The importance of licensing. The meaning of “open” in Open Data. The licensing requirements in the revised PSI Directive. Creative Commons and the Open Data Commons. The licensing options for data and metadata and the consequences for sharing and reuse. The Europeana Licensing Framework as a practical example. |
Title: ODS Onsite Training - Onsite Training to the European Commission |
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Description: The course aims at enhancing the understanding of linked open data principles and technologies. By the end of the course, participants should have a clear understanding of what linked open data is and how linked data technologies can be applied to improve the availability, understandability and usability of EU data. |
Title: Webinar on tools for publishing Public Services descriptions on the PSCs 2015-02-27 |
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Description: The webinar was organised in two sessions:Webinar session 1: The need for an extended Europe’s collection of interoperability assets on JoinupWebinar session 2: Gathering requirements on the upcoming federated catalogue of interoperability assets. This report summarises the key points discussed during both soessins. |
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