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SEMIC Support Centre
The Semantic Interoperability Community develops solutions to help European public administrations perform meaningful cross-border and cross-domain data exchanges.
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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
12/02/2026
Virtual event
StatDCAT-AP Working Group 1 - 12 February 2026
The SEMIC and Eurostat teams are launching the next iteration of StatDCAT‑AP. As part of this process, Working Group 1 met on Thursday, 12 February, from 10:00 to 12:00 CET.
Semantics
10/02/2026
Physical event
SEMIC at the Data Spaces Symposium 2026 - Madrid, 10-11 February
Join SEMIC at the Data Spaces Symposium in Madrid on the 10-11 February 2026
Digital innovation
Last update: 30/01/2026
EU unveils Data Union Strategy for Artificial Intelligence
The European Union has introduced its new Data Union Strategy designed to enhance data availability, simplify data governance, and strengthen digital sovereignty for Artificial Intelligence innovation and competitiveness.
Artificial intelligenceDigital innovation
Latest News
Last update: 24/02/2026
The new unified SEMIC validator: community usage insights
This article presents the new unified SEMIC validator as a single, streamlined entry point for validating data and data models against key European semantic specifications, including DCAT‑AP and the SEMIC Style Guide.
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