[euopendata] A data catalog in dcat mapped to Eurovoc...

Mon Feb 7 06:51:29 UTC 2011

Hi Peter!

congratulations looks really good!

On 06.02.2011, at 23:22, Friedrich Lindenberg wrote:

> Hi Peter!
> 
> This is fantastic news, I'm very excited to see this new format! FWIW,
> I will make sure to include opengov.se in our little index at
> publicdata.eu as soon as possible - the integration should be trivial
> and serve as a rough test that we're "talking the same language" now.

This is really exciting! 

Regards
Daniel

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> 
> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Peter Krantz <peter.krantz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The index mechanism is an Atom feed listing all items in the catalog:
>> 
>> http://www.opengov.se/feeds/data/
> 
> Just to verify: does this support the more eccentric features of
> AtomPub, such as paging? Looking at it now, it seems to me the number
> of records is smaller than what I think is in your catalog.
> 
>> Each entry has some basic info (title etc) and a link element pointing
>> to the RDF representation of the catalog item:
>> 
>> E.g. http://www.opengov.se/data/6/rdf/
> 
> This looks extremely useful, so just two tiny comments:
> 
> 1) It seems to me that "xmlns:catalog="http://data.gov/catalog/">" was
> left in by accident.
> 2) You're specifying formats (in a nice way, btw!) on a per-dataset
> level. My previous understanding had been that this would be a
> property of the distribution, e.g. you'd have a Distribution accessURL
> www.foo.org/test.xml with format "XML" and a second one to
> www.foo.org/test.json with format "JSON". I think we should find a
> shared convention on this - it just makes re-use so much easier.
> What's your take, Richard?
> 
>> I have added basic concept mapping to Eurovoc using the dcat:theme
>> property (e.g. http://eurovoc.europa.eu/4864 above). The idea is to
>> make it easy for people to find datasets in other countries even if
>> information isn't available in their native language. This requires
>> some development at the other end of the wire of course.
> 
> This is extremely useful. How do you align your datasets to Eurovoc -
> using some mapping of keywords or manually?
> 
>> Would this suffice for aggregators or would ppl like a huge RDF dump
>> instead of an atom feed?
> 
> I'm still a big fan of using Atom for this :-)
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Friedrich
> 
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