Programme and speakers: Georgina Burnett (WMDE) Max De Wilde (DG CNECT, EC), Dennis Diefenbach (The QA Company), Roberto Musmeci (DG REGIO, EC) For further details, please check the Events page.

VocBench is a web-based, multilingual, collaborative development platform for managing and sharing reference data and controlled lists of codes and terms used to organise information. With persistent URIs, managed concepts are correctly referenced in any domain. Developed in a context neutral way as an open-source project, it can be deployed or further developed for any sector wanting to have authentic reference data/codes made available for information systems and human users. Reference data, such as code lists and authority tables, means data that are used solely to characterise or relate to…

A very first list of re-usable knowledge organisation systems, code lists, authority lists, classifications, taxonomies and thesauri by topic is available on the platform.

Programme and speakers: Pieter van Everdingen: Platform Linked Data Netherlands, Innovation via meaningful connections Raf Buyle and Veronique Volders: Semantics at your fingertips - How Belgian municipalities create Linked Open data without additional effort Jakub Klímek: Guaranteed and semantically interoperable public government data published and shared as Linked Open Data For further details, please check the Events page.

The aim of this survey is to find out how satisfied you are with the quality of the authority tables available on the EU Vocabularies website, created and/or published by the Standardisation unit (Metadata and reference data sector) of the Publications Office of the European Union. Please complete this quick survey by 29 October 2021.

Do you think this is time for a European Data Charter for the management of data in the digital age which should reflect fundamental rights and European Union values? If so, please contribute to the discussion!