[ckan-discuss] Proposed metadata standards for datacatalogs.org

Mon Jun 20 13:30:52 BST 2011

Hi all,

Are people roughly happy with the metadata scheme that Kendra has come
up with - based on input from the Edinburgh meeting?

If so, I suggest we try and do a push this week to populate a
spreadsheet with the scheme as columns, and populate with metadata
from as many sources as we can this week, then import into
datacatalogs.org.

What do people think?

Tim: might you be up for helping to populate the spreadsheet?

J.

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Martin Alvarez-Espinar
<martin.alvarez at fundacionctic.org> wrote:
> Hello Kendra,
>
> Thanks for the work you are doing. Please, let me add some input on it.
>
> I suppose that the following properties/classes should have the "dcat" [1]
> namespace:
>  dct:distribution
>  dct:feed
>  dct:WebService
>  dct:AccessURL
>
> Please, note that dcat:accessURL has the first character lowercase.
>
> In dcat, "distributions" are used to specify different formats of each
> dataset. The distribution may have a type to define the kind of resource
> (WebService, Feed, or Download).
>
> During the meeting in Edinburgh we discussed about a new property to
> indicate if either the access to the data is direct (the data is after the
> accessURL), or indirect (the accessURL is a page with information about how
> to get the data, such as documentation about a Web Service; also if the
> downloadable file is compressed). I find it very useful.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Martin
>
> [1]
> http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/Data_Catalog_Vocabulary/Vocabulary_Reference#Property:_access.2Fdownload
>
>
> On 13/06/11 16:04, Kendra K. Levine wrote:
>>
>> Hello! I've been working on the metadata standards for datacatalogs.org
>> <http://datacatalogs.org> and am very eager for some feedback. You can
>> look at the proposed terms here: http://goo.gl/Gt32T
>> <http://goo.gl/Gt32T> I've also posted about it on the OFKN notebook.
>>
>> http://notebook.okfn.org/2011/06/13/proposed-metadata-standards-for-datacatalogs-org/
>>
>> Kendra
>>
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