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.
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 streamlines data exchange within the healthData@EU infrastructure and ensure interoperability with other EU data spaces.
The Health Data Cataloging Literacy platform provides a number of tools supporting the implementation of health dataset catalogues
The HealthDCAT-AP Validator is a tool designed to assess RDF data's compliance with the HealthDCAT-AP standard using SHACL shapes.