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Semantics

Semantic interoperability enables systems and services to exchange and interpret data meaningfully. It improves communication, coordination, and decision-making among stakeholders, leading to more efficient and effective public services. Stay informed on specifications (DCAT-AP, core vocabularies...) and the the ICT standardiation plan for achieving semantic interoperability.

Featured Content

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
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: 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

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

22/05/2025
Virtual event

LDES Community Workshop

LDES Community workshop on 22 May 2025, a high-level business session spotlighting successful implementations of LDES across various domains, providing a platform for knowledge sharing and community…
Standardisation
07/05/2025
Virtual event

LDES Working Group 1

LDES Working Group session I on 7 May 2025 will discuss key topics such as rewriting the specification from a consumer perspective, establishing a retention policy, initializing a consumer, and…
Standardisation
Last update: 19/03/2025

Successful implementation of DCAT-AP by EPOS to foster interoperability

EPOS successfully implemented the DCAT-AP metadata profile to enhance interoperability across its diverse research infrastructures. By adopting and tailoring DCAT-AP, EPOS developed EPOS-DCAT-AP, which harmonises metadata across multiple scientific domain
CollaborationOpen Source Software+3 topics

Latest News

Last update: 16/04/2025

Reasons for EUPL adoption explained

A Swiss foundation adopted the EUPL and explains the reasons on their site (better than we could do ourselves).
LicensingOpen Source Software+2 topics
Last update: 02/04/2025

CAMSS webinar | CAMSS Vocabularies - Slides and recording

Slides and recording of the "CAMSS Vocabularies: CAV & CSSV" webinar available!
ICTSemanticsStandardisation