DCAT-AP

This is the issue tracker for the maintenance of DCAT-AP.

The DCAT Application profile for data portals in Europe (DCAT-AP) is a specification based on W3C's Data Catalogue vocabulary (DCAT) for describing public sector datasets in Europe. Its basic use case is to enable a cross-data portal search for data sets and make public sector data better searchable across borders and sectors. This can be achieved by the exchange of descriptions of data sets among data portals.

The specification of the DCAT-AP was a joint initiative of DG CONNECT, the EU Publications Office and the ISA² Programme. The specification was elaborated by a multi-disciplinary Working Group with representatives from 16 European Member States, some European Institutions and the US.

The latest version of DCAT-AP (SEMIC Recommendation v3.0.0) can be downloaded from from the releases or via JoinUp. The HTML of this specification can be found here.

The latest version of DCAT-AP Annex for High Value Datasets (SEMIC Recommendation v3.0.0) is also published here.

Any problems encountered, or suggestions for new functionalities can be submitted as issues on the DCAT-AP repository on GitHub. A short guideline for submitting issues can be found at https://github.com/SEMICeu/DCAT-AP/wiki/Submission-guidelines.

Structure of the repository

/releases: DCAT-AP releases (1.1,1.2 etc), each release might have different distributions

Licence

Copyright © 2024 European Union. All material in this repository is published under the licence CC-BY 4.0, unless explicitly otherwise mentioned. Any problems encountered, or suggestions for new functionalities can be submitted as issues on the DCAT-AP repository on GitHub.

Webinar Overview

This section offers an overview of the webinars and events related to DCAT-AP.

The table below shows webinars and events related to latest version of DCAT-AP:

Title	Date
Remaining issues on DCAT-AP	16/04/2024
Webinar dedicated to technical issues related to DCAT-AP	21/11/2023
Webinar dedicated to the status and governance of DCAT-AP	07/11/2023
Second webinar on DCAT-AP for High-Value Datasets	30/03/2023
Webinar on DCAT-AP for High-Value Datasets	24/02/2023
Webinar on DCAT-AP	02/02/2023

The table below shows webinars and events related to previous versions of DCAT-AP:

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Title	Date
Webinar on DCAT-AP for Data Spaces	04/10/2023
The review of DCAT-AP	25/11/2022
DCAT-AP webinar	26/04/2022
DCAT-AP webinar	10/03/2022
DCAT-AP webinar	21/10/2021
DCAT-AP webinar	15/09/2021
DCAT-AP major release	12/06/2019
Change and Release Management Policy for DCAT-AP	08/12/2017
DCAT-AP "Change Management & Release Policy"	19/10/2017
DCAT-AP-OWL-SHACL WG kick-off meeting	03/04/2017
DCAT-AP real-life implementations WG	17/03/2017
DCAT-AP WG	03/10/2016
DCAT-AP Workshop	13/05/2016
DCAT-AP WG: Implementation Guidelines	18/03/2016
DCAT-AP implementation guidelines	28/01/2016