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

[John Glover]

We'll have a server up and running this afternoon so you should be
able to start adding to it directly, I'll send a mail around when it's
ready.

John

On 22 June 2011 12:17, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Great. When do you think we'll be able to start populating this?
> Should we do this via the spreadsheet and then import? Or aim to add
> to datacatalogs.org directly?
>
> J.
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:13 PM, John Glover <john.glover at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> For the initial datacatalogs.org release, we have decided to shorten
>> Kendra's list slightly, as some of the fields are more applicable to
>> datasets than catalogs. So for now we're going with the fields listed
>> below, but of course this can be added to in future.
>>
>> Title
>> Homepage
>> Description
>> Publisher
>> Language
>> Spatial/Geographic Coverage
>> Tags/Keywords
>>
>>
>> John
>>
>> On 20 June 2011 13:30, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> 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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