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

[John Glover]

The beta version is now online here:
http://ec2-46-51-149-132.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8081
We'll get datacatalogs.org to point to that server soon hopefully, but
it should be safe to start adding data.


John

On 22 June 2011 12:50, John Glover <john.glover at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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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>>>>
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