generated: '2026-09-07'
method: probed
source: GET https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies and GET /vocabularies/{vocabulary} for each entry, 2026-09-07
provider: eu-open-data-portal
standard: DCAT-AP controlled vocabularies (EU Publications Office authority tables + EuroVoc)
summary:
  vocabulary_count: 26
  note: The portal serves 26 controlled vocabularies as first-class API resources — every concept carries multilingual
    pref_labels across the EU languages. These are the authority tables a publisher must use to produce conformant DCAT-AP
    metadata, and they are readable anonymously, which makes the portal a vocabulary provider as well as a catalogue.
    Concept counts were read live; a null count means that vocabulary did not return a count on the probe.
access:
  list: GET https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies
  read: GET https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/{vocabulary}
  concept: GET https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/{vocabulary}/{id}
  write: PUT/POST/PATCH/DELETE on the same paths, X-API-Key required
vocabularies:
- id: eurovoc
  description: EuroVoc, the EU multilingual, multidisciplinary thesaurus used to subject-index datasets
  concepts: 7486
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/eurovoc
- id: timeperiod
  description: Named time periods
  concepts: 37
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/timeperiod
- id: file-type
  description: Publications Office file-type authority table used on distributions
  concepts: 229
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/file-type
- id: site
  description: Portal sites / instances
  concepts: 419
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/site
- id: spdx-checksum-algorithm
  description: SPDX checksum algorithms for distribution integrity
  concepts: 17
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/spdx-checksum-algorithm
- id: data-theme
  description: DCAT-AP data themes (the EU Publications Office data-theme authority table)
  concepts: 14
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/data-theme
- id: hvd-category
  description: High-value dataset categories under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138
  concepts: 96
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/hvd-category
- id: dataset-status
  description: Dataset status
  concepts: 6
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/dataset-status
- id: dataset-type
  description: Dataset types
  concepts: 26
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/dataset-type
- id: licence
  description: Publications Office licence authority table
  concepts: 178
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/licence
- id: corporate-body-classification
  description: Classification of corporate bodies (institution, agency, national body ...)
  concepts: 49
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/corporate-body-classification
- id: frequency
  description: Accrual periodicity / update frequency
  concepts: 41
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/frequency
- id: access-right
  description: Access rights (public, restricted, non-public)
  concepts: 7
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/access-right
- id: iana-media-types
  description: IANA media types for distributions
  concepts: 2209
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/iana-media-types
- id: measurement-unit
  description: Measurement units
  concepts: 52
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/measurement-unit
- id: continent
  description: Continents authority table
  concepts: 8
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/continent
- id: place
  description: Places, used for spatial coverage
  concepts: 4368
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/place
- id: language
  description: Languages of the metadata and the data
  concepts: 1424
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/language
- id: distribution-type
  description: Types of distribution
  concepts: 5
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/distribution-type
- id: planned-availability
  description: Planned availability of a distribution
  concepts: 5
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/planned-availability
- id: distribution-status
  description: Distribution status
  concepts: 9
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/distribution-status
- id: corporate-body
  description: EU and national corporate bodies used as publishers
  concepts: 1960
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/corporate-body
- id: notation-type
  description: Notation types
  concepts: 145
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/notation-type
- id: country
  description: Countries, from the Publications Office country authority table
  concepts: 347
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/country
- id: documentation-type
  description: Documentation types
  concepts: 5
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/documentation-type
- id: adms
  description: ADMS vocabularies (asset description metadata schema)
  concepts: 72
  url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search/vocabularies/adms