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Online trainings

If you want to discover more about SEMIC and become familiar with what we are doing, check out our selected list of trainings on various topics.​​​​

Many of the trainings below are hosted by the Interoperable Europe Academy in the EU Academy eLearning platform, an initiative of the European Commission. The Interoperability Academy aims at contributing to advanced digital skills of civil servants in the area of interoperability to support policy, service delivery and impact evaluation.

Core semantics | DCAT and DCAT-APLatest semantic solutions for public administrations

Core semantics

Solutions
Introduction to core vocabularies

Learning objectives

  • Understand what the Core Vocabularies are
  • Understand in what context the Core Vocabularies could be leveraged
  • Understand the benefits of the Core Vocabularies
  • Understand how to contribute to their development and reuse them
CPSVP

Learning objectives

  • Understand what CPSV-AP is;
  • Understand the benefits of using CPSV-AP as well as the concepts of interoperability and Linked Data;
  • Read and interpret an RDF file and the different concepts that compose it;
  • Read and interpret CPSV-AP specification;
  • Structure basic public services according to CPSV-AP;
  • be able to support the implementation of CPSV-AP
ABR

Learning objectives

  • Understand the advantage and need of implementing BRegDCAT-AP
  • Know where to find the specification
  • Know tools and support that are available to help them in the implementation process.

 

DCAT and DCAT-AP

Solutions
General Introduction

Learning objectives

  • Understand what metadata is and how it relates to DCAT
  • Learn about the history and objectives of DCAT and DCAT-AP
  • Understand the basic model of DCAT; See some examples of DCAT entities
  • Understand the differences between DCAT, DCAT-AP and DCAT-AP-OP
  • Know some of the issues addressed during the development of DCAT and DCAT-AP
Basic user

Learning objectives

  • Understand the concepts of Linked Data
  • Know the vocabularies used in DCAT and DCAT-AP and how they are used
  • Understand the way DCAT-AP defines mandatory, recommended and optional classes and properties
  • See the controlled vocabularies used in DCAT-AP
  • Look at some examples and guidelines
Advanced user

Learning objectives

  • Understand extensions of DCAT-AP and how they retain conformance
  • Know the influence that DCAT-AP has on the developments of DCAT
  • Discuss possible solutions to functional issues

Latest semantic solutions for public administrations

Solutions
AI training

Learning objectives

  • Know what an AI system is
  • Understand the basic components of an AI system
  • Understand the challenges related to data quality in the context of AI systems performance
  • Understand the 4 interoperability layers of the EIF
  • Know the basics on AI Act and EI Act
  • Understand the basic aspects of AI supporting interoperability and apply them in their work
Solid

Learning objectives

  • Understand the concept of data decentralisation and personal spaces - what SOLID is
  • Understand its possibilities, opportunities and limitations
  • Understand how SOLID could be implemented in a given context
  • Understand how EU solutions could leverage SOLID
LDES

Learning objectives

  • Pros and cons of using Wikibase/SMW for your dataspace
  • Lessons learnt from projects already using Wikibase/SMW instances
  • Practical know-how about setting up a new Wikibase/SMW from scratch
  • What should be on Wikidata vs in a local Wikibase/SMW
  • Comparison between Wikibase and SMW
Wikibase and Semantic MediaWiki

Learning objectives

  • The 3 levels of priorities in Web API design for Linked Data publishing
  • The LDES and TREE specification
  • How to implement LDES on top of your existing dataset
Training Digital Twin

Learning objectives

  • Understand how citizen generated data streams can be leveraged in public context
  • Understand what’s in it for the citizen
  • Understand how the challenge of protecting participating EU citizens' privacy and right to consent can be tackled
  • Understand how SEMIC tackles semantic interoperability across the industrial sector and how it is applied to a proof-of-concept
  • Understand the technology behind the proof-of-concept enabling secure and transparent data sharing