Reusable data models for public administrations such as Person or Business. They facilitate system integration, data publishing, and design of new systems. It is an EC solution.
Standardisation
Last update: 25/11/2020
GeoDCAT-AP 2.0 webinar
The Semantic Interoperability Community (SEMIC) action of the ISA2 programme will hold its very first webinar on GeoDCAT-AP 2.0 taking place on the 9th of November 2020 at 10:00 (GMT+1). During the event, the new version of these specifications will be presented to the GeoDCAT-AP Working Group. Moreover, the issues raised by the community on the dedicated GitHub page will be discussed and solutions proposed. The agenda and the discussion materials/presentations will be published on this page in due time. Context GeoDCAT-AP is an extension of the application profile DCAT-AP for geospatial data…
Geospatial
Last update: 15/06/2020
Public review bug fix release DCAT-AP
We would like to inform you about the upcoming bug fix of the DCAT Application Profile for data portals in Europe (DCAT-AP). In line with the Change and Release Management Policy for DCAT-AP, the bug fix release has been prepared and is ready for review. The release is scheduled for 29th of June 2020. The addressed issues are listed here and the respective bug-fix release can be found here. As always, we would like to hear your opinion of this release, so have your say in the public review and submit your remarks on the dedicated channel DCAT-AP repository on GitHub by the 22nd of June 2020.…
Standardisation
Last update: 05/03/2020
DCAT-AP releases 2020
Submit your requests on GitHub We invite you to submit an issue for any problems with the current DCAT-AP release version or suggestions for new functionalities on the DCAT-AP repository on GitHub. All issues submitted by 17 April 2020 will be considered for submission in the next bug fix release on the 15 May 2020. For the next minor release scheduled on the 2 November 2020 the window for submitting issues is open until 1 September 2020 and bug fixes until 1 October 2020. In this context, several workshops will be organized in the upcoming months in order to discuss the issues raised on the…
Standardisation
Last update: 20/11/2019
DCAT-AP major release
We would like to inform you about the major release of the DCAT Application Profile for data portals in Europe (DCAT-AP) 2.0.0. This updated version not only implements major change requests to the DCAT-AP version 1.2.1, which were submitted to the ISA2 Programme of the European Commission in line with the Change and Release Management Policy for DCAT-AP, but also updates following up what happens in W3C. Following the public review that took place between the 4th of October and the 4th of November, the DCAT-AP major release 2.0.0 has been published on 20th November 2019. What’s new? The…
Standardisation
Last update: 19/11/2019
DCAT-AP 2.0.0
We would like to inform you about the major release of the DCAT Application Profile for data portals in Europe (DCAT-AP) 2.0.0. This updated version not only implements major change requests to the DCAT-AP version 1.2.1, which were submitted to the ISA2 Programme of the European Commission in line with the Change and Release Management Policy for DCAT-AP, but also updates following up what happens in W3C. Following the public review that took place between the 4th of October and the 4th of November, the DCAT-AP major release 2.0.0 has been published on 15th November 2019. What’s new? The…
Standardisation
Last update: 04/10/2019
New DCAT-AP version for review
We would like to inform you about the recent update of the DCAT Application Profile for data portals in Europe (DCAT-AP). This updated version not only implements major change requests to the DCAT-AP version 1.2.1, which were submitted to the ISA2 Programme of the European Commission in line with the Change and Release Management Policy for DCAT-AP, but also applies updates following new developments at W3C level. The draft version of the DCAT-AP major release is available for public review as from today 4th October until 4th November 2019. What’s new? The changes implemented in the draft…
Standardisation
Last update: 27/09/2019
Join us at SEMIC 2019!
Fidel Santiago, Programme manager for the ISA² Programme, Interoperability Unit, Directorate General for Informatics, European Commission According to the Oxford dictionary, ‘space’ can have various meanings, such as ‘a continuous area or expanse which is free, available, or unoccupied’ or ‘the freedom to live, think, and develop in a way that suits one’. Both definitions can give us an idea on what trans-European data spaces may represent in the context of digital public services: a series of continuous areas available to use and to experiment with interoperable cross-border digital public…
Standardisation
Last update: 26/09/2019
Discover CPEV!
Open government data is a valuable resource of information that is publicly available to anyone for analysis and reuse. However, even though governmental data is open, it is often represented and published in an unstructured way without following any specific guidelines. The ISA² programme has developed solutions, i.e. e-Government Core Vocabularies, that help public administrations to bring structure in their data. What are Core Vocabularies? Core Vocabularies are ‘simplified, reusable, and extensible data models that capture the fundamental characteristics of an entity in a context-neutral…
Standardisation
Last update: 19/09/2019
Join our 4th DCAT-AP webinar!
Are you interested in discovering the proposed changes for the next major release for DCAT-AP in November 2019? Following up on the review of the major change requests discussed in the third DCAT-AP major release webinar, we organise a 4th Webinar on the DCAT-AP major release on 26 September 2019 from 15:00 to 16:30 CEST (GMT+2). You will find all the practical information on the event page. In the upcoming webinar, the ISA² Programme will provide an overview of the changes in DCAT-AP 2.0.0 and discuss any open issues, before finalising and sharing the first draft of the DCAT-AP release 2.0.0…
Standardisation
Last update: 31/07/2019
Join our 3rd DCAT-AP webinar!
Are you interested in discovering the proposed changes for the next major release for DCAT-AP in November 2019? Following up on the review of the major change requests discussed in the second webinar on the DCAT-AP major release, we will organise a third webinar on 30 August 2019 from 10:00 to 11:30 AM CET (GMT+2). You will find all practical information and the draft agenda on the event page. The purpose of this webinar is to present an analysis of the changes in DCAT version 2 and their impact on DCAT-AP, before finalising and sending the first draft of the DCAT-AP release 2.0.0 for public…
Standardisation
Last update: 29/07/2019
GeoDCAT-AP insights from Italy
Interview with Antonio Rotundo, Geographic Information Expert, and Gabriele Ciasullo, Head of Databases and Open Data Office, Agency for Digital Italy (AgID) Why did your agency opt for GeoDCAT-AP? AgID (Agency for Digital Italy) has been working on a national strategy for an overall public sector information infrastructure as knowledge base of all public information resources, implemented by the actions defined in the Three-Year Plan for ICT in the Public Administration. The core components of that infrastructure are the national catalogue for spatial data (RNDT) and the national open data…