Nearly 200 participants attended the SEMIC 2019 Conference on "Linking data spaces for citizens" that took place on 21 October in Helsinki, Finland. An additional 186 people from all over the world followed the event via live stream. The presentations of all speakers and the photos from the conference are now available.

Discover the programme and speakers of the first-ever Interoperability Academy Winter School! The event is organised by the ISA² Programme together with the KU Leuven Public Governance Institute in Leuven, Belgium on 11-13 December 2019. The deadline for applications is 4 November.

The Access to Base Registries Action organised a webinar on 9 October 2019. The aim was to share the progress on a data model/specification (BReg-DCAT-AP) and to open an interactive discussion on data management topics related to the framework on base registries access and interconnection (BRAIF). You can learn more through highlights, recording and presentations.

Open government data are a valuable source of information that is available to anyone for analysis and reuse. However, even though governmental data are open, they are often published in an unstructured way without following any specific guidelines. ISA² has developed a solution, e-Government Core Vocabularies, to help public administrations bring structure in their data. One of them is the Core Public Event Vocabulary that is a common data model for describing public events.