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EHDS Regulation

  • EHDS Regulation in a nutshell

  • Whereas

  • CHAPTER I

  • CHAPTER II

  • CHAPTER III

  • CHAPTER IV

  • CHAPTER V

  • CHAPTER VI

  • CHAPTER VII

  • CHAPTER VIII

  • CHAPTER IX

  • ANNEXES

HealthDCAT-AP Introduction

This document presents recommendations for the further development and potential EU-wide adoption of HealthDCAT-AP, an extension of the DCAT Application Profile for dataset catalogues in Europe . HealthDCAT-AP is specifically designed to describe health datasets and dataset access services, ensuring they are consistently represented and easily discoverable across various platforms.

  • Background

  • Objectives of HealthDCAT-AP

  • Use case: HealthData@EU - A federated Infrastructure

  • Roadmap

  • Methodology

  • Draft version of HealthDCAT-AP

  • Mapping to DCAT-AP, HealthDCAT-AP

Scope of HealthDCAT-AP

HealthDCAT-AP is an extension of the European DCAT-AP (Data Catalog Vocabulary Application Profile) designed to meet the specific metadata needs of the healthData@EU infrastructure.

  • HealthDCAT-AP and health standards

  • HealthDCAT-AP vs DCAT-AP, GeoDCAT, ...

HealthDCAT-AP Model

HealthDCAT-AP streamlines data exchange within the healthData@EU infrastructure and ensure interoperability with other EU data spaces.

  • Metadata management

  • Metadata fit for the purpose of Generative AI

  • Faceted search

  • Wikidata as global knowledge hub

  • Semantic annotation and semantic search

  • Sample distribution

  • Analytics

  • Quality annotation

  • Purpose for collecting data

  • Minimum HealthDCAT-AP elements

Tools

The Health Data Cataloging Literacy platform provides a number of tools supporting the implementation of health dataset catalogues

  • HealthDCAT-AP

  • HealthDCAT-AP editor

  • Demo catalogue

  • HealthDCAT-AP validator

  • Data profiling toolkit

  • HealthDCAT-AP API

  • EHDS Dataset categories

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  • EHDS Regulation in a nutshell
  • Whereas
  • • CHAPTER I
  • CHAPTER II
  • CHAPTER III
  • CHAPTER IV
  • CHAPTER V
  • CHAPTER VI
  • CHAPTER VII
  • CHAPTER VIII
  • CHAPTER IX
  • ANNEXES
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