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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 best practices and tools for achieving semantic interoperability.

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Last update: 14/02/2024

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: 20/03/2024

SEMIC Conference

#SEMIC2024 will take place on 27 June 2024 in Brussels!SEMIC is returning on 27 June for an exciting event in Brussels - the heart of the European Union!Hosted by the European Commission, in...
Semantics
Last update: 24/08/2023

Rolling Plan 2023

The Rolling Plan for ICT Standardisation provides a unique bridge between EU policies and standardisation activities concerning information and communication technologies (ICT). This helps to increase...
Standardisation
Last update: 21/03/2024

Personal Data Spaces

What are Personal Data Spaces? The Data Governance Act introduces new concepts & mechanisms, such as data intermediaries, to enable the safe reuse of certain categories of public-sector data that are...
Semantics
Last update: 04/03/2024

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. Common...
Semantics
Last update: 17/11/2023

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. You will...
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Last update: 19/03/2024

The Interoperable Europe Act is adopted

We've been talking about the upcoming Interoperable Europe Act for a long time. As a reminder, the Commission's proposal for a regulation was published on 18/11/2022 (EURLEX). Now, the proposal with certain amendments from the Council and Parliament has been adopted by these two co-legislators. Finally, the regulation will enter into force when it is published in the "Official Journal of the European Union" around mid-April.So stay tuned!
European PoliciesLegal
Last update: 28/03/2024

Mapping a graph to a tree data structure: a case study using the Core Vocabularies

1. Introduction2. Understanding the Roles in a Data Exchange3. Dealing with Conceptual and Physical Data Models4. The Importance of a Schema4.1 Validation4.2 Versioning4.3 Order Matters4.4 Data Types5...
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30/04/2024
Virtual event

LDES webinar

On 30 April 2024 from 10:00 until 12:00 CEST a webinar on LDES will be held.A Linked Data Event Stream (LDES) is a data publishing approach which allows you to publish any dataset as a collection of immutable objects. The focus of an LDES is to allow clients to replicate the history of a dataset and efficiently synchronise with its latest changes.The webinar on LDES will focus on the current progress of the SEMIC LDES pilots, emphasising their ongoing development and outcomes. It will also discuss the future maintenance of LDES to ensure its sustainability and effectiveness.AgendaThe agenda…
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Latest News

Last update: 25/04/2024

Interview with Alexandra Balahur

Alexandra Balahur is the team leader of SEMIC, the semantic interoperability project and community in the Interoperability and Digital Government Unit of the Commission’s Directorate-General for Digital Services (DG DIGIT). Her primary role involves coordinating efforts in semantic interoperability within her unit and bridging activities with other teams, such as Digital-Ready Policymaking, Open Source, and others. Additionally, she collaborates with other units engaged in data spaces and other Commission Directorates, such as DG GROW and the Publication Office (OP), linking semantic…
Semantics
Last update: 11/04/2024

SEMIC 2024 – Workshop for early-career researchers

We are inviting early career researchers (in their individual capacity) to submit abstracts of their research and present it at one of our SEMIC 2024 pre-conference workshops. “Interoperable Europe: From Vision to Reality”, the latest edition of the annual SEMIC conference, returns to Brussels on 27 June. Registration for the main event and the pre-conference workshops on 26 June has already started. SEMIC is organised by the European Commission in collaboration with the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It is the Commission’s flagship event on semantic interoperability…
Semantics
Last update: 02/04/2024

Upcoming Events April 2024

The Semantic Interoperability Community (SEMIC) organises several workshops and webinars on various topics impacted by interoperability challenges in 2024. Are you curious about the planning for the coming month? You can check out the upcoming events on the SEMIC Support Centre.Over the course of the month April, SEMIC will organise three webinars. One of which will be on the Core Vocabularies, another on the revision of GeoDCAT-AP, and the last for the month of April on LDES. The first webinar of April will take place on the 9th from 13:00 to 15:00 CEST. This webinar is on the review of Core…
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